Theorizing the City

Anthropological perspectives are not often represented in urban studies, even though many anthropologists have been contributing actively to theory and research on urban poverty, racism, globalization, and architecture. Theorizing the City corrects this omission by presenting twelve cross-cultural case studies focusing on the analysis of space and place.

Five images of the city -- the divided city, the contested city, the global city the modernist city, and the postmodern city -- serve as the framework for the selected essays. These images highlight current research trends in urban anthropology, such as poststructural studies of race, class, and gender in the urban context; political economic studies of transnational culture; and studies of the symbolic and social production of urban space and planning.

Acknowledgments and Permissions

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Introduction. Theorizing the City

1

(36)

Setha M. Low

Part I The Divided City

The Changing Significance of Race and Class in an African American Community

37

(30)

Steven Gregory

Creating Family Forms: The Exclusion of Men and Teenage Boys from Families in the New York City Shelter System, 1987-1991

67

(16)

Ida Susser

Fortified Enclaves: The New Urban Segregation

83

(28)

Teresa P. R. Caldeira

Part II The Contested City

Spatializing Culture: The Social Production and Social Construction of Public Space in Costa Rica

111

(27)

Setha M. Low

Landscape and Power in Vienna: Gardens of Discovery

138

(31)

Robert Rotenberg

Part III The Global City

Personal Relations and Divergent Economies: A Case Study of Hong Kong Investment in South China

169

(32)

Josephine Smart

Alan Smart

Wholesale Sushi: Culture and Commodity in Tokyo's Tsukiji Market

201

(44)

Theodore C. Bestor

Part IV The Modernist City

The Modernist City and the Death of the Street

245

(32)

James Holston

The Power of Space in the Evolution of an Accra Zongo

277

(40)

Deborah Pellow

Part V The Postmodern City

Making Place in the Nonplace Urban Realm: Notes on the Revitalization of Downtown Atlanta

317

(25)

Charles Rutheiser

Discourses of the City: Policy and Response in Post-Transitional Barcelona

342

(35)

Gary Mcdonogh

Spatial Discourses and Social Boundaries: Re-imagining the Toronto Waterfront

377

(24)

Matthew Cooper

Biographical Notes

401

(4)

Index

405

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