SEEING CITIES CHANGE by Jerome Krase, Italo Pardo, Dr. Giuliana B. Prato ( 9781409428787 )

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SEEING CITIES CHANGE
LOCAL CULTURE AND CLASS

By:

Jerome Krase, Italo Pardo, Dr. Giuliana B. Prato

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Hardback

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1409428788

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

28 January, 2012

Series:

Urban Anthropology

Pages:

300

Description:

Cities have always been dynamic social environments for visual and otherwise symbolic competition between the groups who live and work within them. This book presents studies of various cities on both sides of The Atlantic to show how global forces and the competition between urban residents in "contested terrains" is changing the faces of cities.

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Cities have always been dynamic social environments for visual and otherwise symbolic competition between the groups who live and work within them. In contemporary urban areas, all sorts of diversity are simultaneously increased and concentrated, chief amongst them in recent years being the ethnic and racial transformation produced by migration and the gentrification of once socially marginal areas of the city. Seeing Cities Change demonstrates the utility of a visual approach and the study of ordinary streetscapes to document and analyze how the built environment reflects the changing cultural and class identities of neighborhood residents. Discussing the manner in which these changes relate to issues of local and national identities and multiculturalism, it presents studies of various cities on both sides of the Atlantic to show how global forces and the competition between urban residents in 'contested terrains' is changing the faces of cities around the globe.Blending together a variety of sources from scholarly and mass media, this engaging volume focuses on the importance of 'seeing' and, in its consideration of questions of migration, ethnicity, diversity, community, identity, class and culture, will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists and geographers with interests in visual methods and urban spaces.

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Includes 59 b&w illustrations

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Ashgate Publishing Limited

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