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Table of 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.

Contributors:

Low, Setha M.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Cities and towns

Urban anthropology

Sociology, Urban

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xii, 433 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Call Numbers:

HT119 .T44 1999

ISBNs:

0813527198 (cloth, alk. paper)
0813527201 (pbk., alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

99017712

OCLC Numbers:

40776845