ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book reflects the growing and common interest in leisure policies within cities in Western Europe as both national and local governments express an interest in leisure as a vehicle for meeting social and economic urban policy objectives. It highlights various processes of importance in explaining developments in urban leisure and urban leisure policy. International processes of capital accumulation are not only reflected in a new division of urban regions in terms of economic functions, but in changes in state policies and relations between the central and the local state. Although different countries have developed their own national political infrastructure and discourse, the economic crisis of the 1970s resulted in a general shift from Keynesian to monetarist state policies. The final constitutive element in the (re)production of urban leisure policy concerns local leisure consumption.
