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Vems latte? En analys av Malmö stads kaféboom

Tobar Dubon, Armando LU (2012) SGEL16 20121
Department of Human Geography
Abstract
The story of Malmö - from industrial city to knowledge city - Will be followed by a new one. The coffee shop explosion in Malmö is examined here from a qualitative approach. Through interviews, observations and discourse analysis. The essay examines the relationship between the coffee shop boom and the City of Malmö's development during the 2000s and analyzes the physical and cultural implications this has had on the city area. Critical realism has been the basis for a synthesis that brought together the case study about coffee shop industry, the City of Malmö future vision and urban policy, reflected in Richard Florida's theory of the creative class and George Ritzers "McDonaldization" theory. The analysis shows the development in the... (More)
The story of Malmö - from industrial city to knowledge city - Will be followed by a new one. The coffee shop explosion in Malmö is examined here from a qualitative approach. Through interviews, observations and discourse analysis. The essay examines the relationship between the coffee shop boom and the City of Malmö's development during the 2000s and analyzes the physical and cultural implications this has had on the city area. Critical realism has been the basis for a synthesis that brought together the case study about coffee shop industry, the City of Malmö future vision and urban policy, reflected in Richard Florida's theory of the creative class and George Ritzers "McDonaldization" theory. The analysis shows the development in the coffee shop industry, where chains and private coffee shops are geographically segregated. The upsurge in itself has been developed based on the discourses which took place in Malmö and gained institutional support and today is the basis in search of an attractive location which would raise the portion of the coffee shop industry that the creative class finds attractive. (Less)
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author
Tobar Dubon, Armando LU
supervisor
organization
course
SGEL16 20121
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Coffee shops, Qualitative method, McDonaldization, Creative class., Malmö
language
Swedish
id
2594986
date added to LUP
2012-11-02 09:07:19
date last changed
2012-11-02 09:07:19
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  abstract     = {{The story of Malmö - from industrial city to knowledge city - Will be followed by a new one. The coffee shop explosion in Malmö is examined here from a qualitative approach. Through interviews, observations and discourse analysis. The essay examines the relationship between the coffee shop boom and the City of Malmö's development during the 2000s and analyzes the physical and cultural implications this has had on the city area. Critical realism has been the basis for a synthesis that brought together the case study about coffee shop industry, the City of Malmö future vision and urban policy, reflected in Richard Florida's theory of the creative class and George Ritzers "McDonaldization" theory. The analysis shows the development in the coffee shop industry, where chains and private coffee shops are geographically segregated. The upsurge in itself has been developed based on the discourses which took place in Malmö and gained institutional support and today is the basis in search of an attractive location which would raise the portion of the coffee shop industry that the creative class finds attractive.}},
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  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Vems latte? En analys av Malmö stads kaféboom}},
  year         = {{2012}},
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