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124 Pretes (1995: 7). old neighbourhoods. Similarly, Falconer
125 Sherwin (2001). Al-Hindi and Staddon (1997) depict the
126 Norton (1996). appeal of Seaside, Florida, as based on an 55
127 Nuttall (1997: 226). idealized past in which a sense of com-
128 Goss (1993b). munity is taken to be a key ingredient.
129 Milne et al. (1998). According to Falconer Al-Hindi and Till
130 Urry (2002: 92). (2001), developments associated with
131 Harley (2002). New Urbanist principles could be found
132 Byrne (1997); Young (1998). in at least 45 states.
133 Robbins (2002). 139 Urry (2002: 123).
134 Urry (2002: 137). 140 Gottdiener (2002).
135 Raz (1999: 154). 141 Hendry (2000: 1)
136 Frantz and Collins (1999: 116). 142 Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (1998: 9).
137 Frantz and Collins (1999); Pollan (1997); 143 Handler and Gable (1997).
Ross (1999). 144 Hendry (2000: 137).
138 Huxtable (1997). Kenny and Zimmerman 145 Robinson (2003).
(2004), for example, show how theming 146 Investor’s Chronicle, 24 March, 2000: 26.
in terms of nostalgia was a core compo- 147 Baldwin (2002).
nent of the New Urbanist redevelopment 148 Sherman (2001).
of Central Milwaukee. This included ref- 149 Ritzer and Liska (1997).
erence to the city’s ‘grounding in tradi- 150 Wood (2000).
tional Midwestern values’ and ‘the 151 Wickers (1999).
cultural capital represented by the late 152 Pine and Gilmore (1999: 41).
nineteenth-century era industrial land- 153 Ritzer (1999).
scape’ (2004: 76). However, as the 154 Quoted in Schmitt and Simonson
authors observe, the process of transfor- (1997: 122).
mation ‘by nostalgically celebrating a 155 Goldberger (1997b).
heritage of ethnicity and industrializa- 156 Sandicki and Holt (1998).
tion’ (2004: 94) uncritically presupposed 157 Shoval (2000).
values that were in short supply in the