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Theorizing the City : The New Urban Anthropology Reader /
Anthropological perspective are not often represented in urban studies, even though many anthropologist have been contributing actively to theory and research on urban poverty, racism, globalization, and architecture. Theorizing the City corrects this omission. Following a brief history of urban ant...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Theorizing the city / Setha M. Low
- pt. 1. The divided city. The changing significance of race and class in an African American community / Steven Gregory. Creating family forms: the exclusion of men and teenage boys from families in the New York City shelter system, 1987-1991 / Ida Susser. Fortified enclaves: the new urban segregation / Teresa P.R. Caldeira
- pt. 2. The contested city. Spatializing culture: the social production and social construction of public space in Costa Rica / Setha M. Low. Landscape and power in Vienna: gardens and discovery / Robert Rotenberg
- pt. 3. The global city. Personal relations and divergent economies: a case study of Hong Kong investment in South China / Josephine Smart and Alan Smart. Wholesale sushi: culture and commodity in Tokyo's Tsukiji Market / Theodore C. Bestor
- pt. 4. The modernist city. The modernist city and the death of the street / James Holston. The power of space in the evolution of an Accra Zongo / Deborah Pellow
- pt. 5. The postmodern city. Making place in the nonplace urban realm: notes on the revitalization of downtown Atlanta / Charles Rutheiser. Discourses of the city: policy and response in post-transitional Barcelona / Gary McDonogh. Spatial discourses and social boundaries: re-imagining the Toronto waterfront / Matthew Cooper.