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Urban Consumption and Feelings of Attachment of Rotterdam's New Middle Class

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  • Marco van der Land

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Cities have increasingly developed into spaces for consumption. This paper explores the relationship between patterns of use of urban leisure amenities and feelings of attachment to the city. A survey among highly educated professionals and managers (the new middle class, working in the Dutch city of Rotterdam) was carried out in order to examine both their participation in the domain of urban leisure and urban residence, and their attachments to the city in general. The survey shows that among the new middle class subgroupings can be identified, based on their mobility with regard to leisure and their psychological attachments to the city. One of them is a group of young single urban households, who are not only frequent urban consumers, but who also feel strongly attached to the city as a whole. The findings suggest that in cities specific processes of symbolic consumption occur which facilitate some extent of psychological attachment and which appear to tie a subset of the new middle class to urban places, regardless of place of residence.

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  • Marco van der Land, 2005. "Urban Consumption and Feelings of Attachment of Rotterdam's New Middle Class," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 10(2), pages 141-156, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:10:y:2005:i:2:p:141-156
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.1098
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    1. Marco van der Land, 2007. "Cursory Connections: Urban Ties of the New Middle Class in Rotterdam," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 44(3), pages 477-499, March.

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