Akademik Məlumat İdarəetmə Sistemi
Town Planning and Architecture, vol.35, no.2, pp.147-158, 2011 (Scopus)
The article deals with several problematical units concerned with commercialization of the past in the postindustrial, postmodern consumer societies. Primarily, the process of the commercialization of urban centres - especially old historical cities and their images - is analysed in the context of contemporary global culture economics; also, questions regarding forms and shapes this process assumes are raised. Secondly, the consideration regarding the meaning of this process is given, in other words, what is it telling about the condition of our society and attitudes towards the past? Undoubtedly, an adequate assessment of the knowledge of socio-economic tendencies, which have to cope with cities influenced by neoliberalism, is very important and relevant to post-colonial and post-communist countries, which, like Lithuania, are still seeking for their identity in the face of economical and cultural globalization challenges. © Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universitetas, 2011.