Consumption and the Post-Industrial City

The Editors: Frank Eckardt is working as an urban sociologist at the European Urban Studies programme of the Bauhaus University Weimar, where he is the local organizer of the European Cities in Transition Conference Series. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kassel in political science.
Dieter Hassenpflug is Professor for Sociology and Social History of the City at the Bauhaus University Weimar. He studied economics, sociology and philosophy at the Free University Berlin and Kassel University. He was a lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin, the Berlin College of Economics, Kassel University and at the University of Frankfurt. He is Spiritus Rector of the postgraduate European Urban Studies at the Bauhaus University Weimar and director of the EuroConferences Series «The European City in Transition» at Weimar 2001-2003.