TY  - BOOK
AU  - Low,Setha M.
TI  - Theorizing the city: the new urban anthropology reader 
SN  - 0813527198
AV  - HT119 .T44 1999
U1  - 307.76 21
PY  - 1999///]
CY  - New Brunswick, N.J.
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Cities and towns
KW  - Urban anthropology
KW  - Sociology, Urban
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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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