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Theorizing the City: The New Urban Anthropology Reader
edited by Setha M. Low
Rutgers University Press, 1999
eISBN: 978-0-8135-5999-5 | Cloth: 978-0-8135-2719-2 | Paper: 978-0-8135-2720-8
Library of Congress Classification HT119.T44 1999
Dewey Decimal Classification 307.76

ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
ABOUT THIS BOOK

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. The New Urban Anthropology Reader corrects this omission by presenting 12 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.


Selected Chapters:


Theorizing the City: An Introduction by Setha M. Low


Part I. The Divided City


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


Fortified Enclaves: The New Urban Segregation by Teresa P. R. Caldeira


Part II. The Contested City


Spatializing Culture: The Social Production and Social Construction of Public Space in Costa Rica, Setha M. Low


Part III. The Global City


Wholesale Sushi: Culture and Commodity in Tokyo’s Tsukiki Market, Ted Bestor


Part IV. The Modernist City


The Modernist City and the Death of the Street by James Holston


Part V. The Postmodern City


Spatial Discourse and Social Boundaries: Re-imagining the Toronto Waterfront by Matthew Cooper



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