Caring About the Community: Exploring Place Transformation Through Adopt a Station

Our research explores a community engagement scheme centred on the adoption of railway stations in Scotland. We reveal how the latent potential residing in consumers has transformed stations from spaces of transit to places of community life that reflect both individual and community identities.



Citation:

Matthew Alexander and Kathy Hamilton (2013) ,"Caring About the Community: Exploring Place Transformation Through Adopt a Station", in E - European Advances in Consumer Research Volume 10, eds. Gert Cornelissen, Elena Reutskaja, and Ana Valenzuela, Duluth, MN : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 240-241.

Authors

Matthew Alexander, University of Strathclyde, UK
Kathy Hamilton, University of Strathclyde, UK



Volume

E - European Advances in Consumer Research Volume 10 | 2013



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