Re-presenting the city : ethnicity, capital and culture in the twenty-first century metropolis /
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| Imprint: | Washington Square, N.Y. : New York University Press, 1996. |
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| Description: | ix, 282 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2377238 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Cities, Texts and Paradigms / Anthony D. King
- 1. Rebuilding the Global City: Economy, Ethnicity and Space / Saskia Sassen
- 2. Space and Symbols in an Age of Decline / Sharon Zukin
- 3. Return to the Future: Puerto Rican Vernacular Architecture in New York City / Joseph Sciorra
- 4. After Tompkins Square Park: Degentrification and the Revanchist City / Neil Smith
- 5. Bypassing New York in Re-Presenting Eko: Production of Space in a Nigerian City / Nkiru Nzegwu
- 6. Exploring Colombo: The Relevance of a Knowledge of New York / Nihal Perera
- 7. Mombasa: Three Stages towards Globalization / Ali A. Mazrui
- 8. The City Which is Not One / John Tagg
- 9. Analytic Borderlands: Race, Gender and Representation in the New City / Saskia Sassen
- 10. Silent Itineraries: Making Places in Architectural History / Greig Crysler
- 11. A Guide to Urban Representation and What to Do About It: Alternative Traditions of Urban Theory / Rob Shields
- 12. Me(trope)olis: Or Hayden White Among the Urbanists / James S. Duncan.