Theorizing the city : the new urban anthropology reader / edited by Setha M. Low.

Contributor(s):

Low, Setha M [editor.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0813527198
9780813527192
0813527201
9780813527208

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

307.76 21

LOC classification:

HT119 .T44 1999

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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 anthropology, emphasizing developments in the field during the 1990s, this volume presents twelve ethnographies of major cities in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Five images of the city-the divided city, the contested city, the global city, the modernist city, and the postmodern city-serve as frameworks for the essays. Each section highlights current research trends such as poststructural studies of race, class and gender in the urban context; political economic studies of transnational culture; and studies of the symbolic meanings and social production of urban spaces.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	307.76 THE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A246038B

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 anthropology, emphasizing developments in the field during the 1990s, this volume presents twelve ethnographies of major cities in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Five images of the city-the divided city, the contested city, the global city, the modernist city, and the postmodern city-serve as frameworks for the essays. Each section highlights current research trends such as poststructural studies of race, class and gender in the urban context; political economic studies of transnational culture; and studies of the symbolic meanings and social production of urban spaces.

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