Abstract

374 BOOK REVIEWS courses about cities and urban studies will also find this text extremely helpful in illustrating much of the theory found in the overarching literature about the urban existence in the United States. The style of the text will appeal to undergrads and graduate students alike. It will also be beneficial to academics looking to cast a wider net about poverty and urban studies in their background research. With the perspective as someone who has studied consumption from both a psychological and cultural perspective, this text does a lot to bring the gap, in terms of application between these two fields. Specifically, psychologists and those interested in social psychology will clearly recognize a number of influence techniques theory in practice in the examples used in this book. Much of the theory discussed and mentioned by influence expert Cialdini (1987) clearly jumps out, as does as lot of the bird’s eye view material in Kardes, Cronley, and Cline’s consumer behavior text (2014). From a cultural and ethnographic perspective, the authors’ work really acts as a billboard for deep immer- sion and deep context in consumption landscapes (e.g. Edirisingha, Aitken, and Ferguson 2014), where the authors truly surround themselves