Re-presenting the City
Ethnicity, Capital and Culture in the 21st Century Metropolis
Published on 24. January 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-0-333-60192-1 (ISBN)
Description
This interdisciplinary and critical collection of essays examines recent visual, architectural and spatial transformations in New York and other major cities in relation to issues of ethnicity, capital and culture. Innovative and wide-raning, the essays move between interpretative representations of the newly emerging metropolis and the larger theoretical and methodological questions raised by the task of representation itself. Contributors reflect on the construction of both the real and unreal city, the images, metaphors and discourses through which the contemporary city is represented, and the texts which both mediate our experience of, as well as contribute to producing, the city of the future.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
502 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-60192-1 (9780333601921)
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Anthony D. King
Re-Presenting the City
Ethnicity, Capital and Culture in the Twenty-First Century Metropolis
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01/1996
Palgrave Macmillan
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Anthony D. King
Re-Presenting the City
Ethnicity, Capital and Culture in the Twenty-First Century Metropolis
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01/1996
Palgrave Macmillan
€42.79
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Content
Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction: Cities, Texts and Paradigms; A.D. King - PART 1: ETHNICITY, CAPITAL AND CULTURE: REPRESENTATIONS OF NEW YORK CITY - Rebuilding the Global City: Economy, Ethnicity and Space; S. Sassen - Space and Symbols in an Age of Decline; S. Zukin - Return to the Future: Puerto Rican Vernacular Architecture in New York City; J. Sciorra - After Tompkins Square Park; Degentrification and the Revanchist City; N. Smith - PART 2: ETHNICITY, CAPITAL AND CULTURE: WRITING THE CITY IN AFRICA AND SOUTH ASIA - Bypassing New York in Representing Eko: Production of Space in a Nigerian City; N. Nzegwu - Exploring Colombo: The Relevance of a Knowledge of New York; N. Perera - Mombasa: Three Stages Towards Globalization; A. Mazrui - PART 3: URBAN CON-TEXTS: READING AND WRITING THE CITY - The City Which is Not one; J. Tagg - Analytic Borderlands: Race, Gender, and Representation in the New City; S. Sassen - Silent Itineraries: Making Places in Architectural History; G. Crysler - A Guide to Urban Representation and What to Do About It: Alternative Traditions of Urban Theory; R. Shields - Me(trope)olis: Or Hayden White Among the Urbanists; J.S. Duncan