The Cultures of Cities : txt
Sharon Zukin.
- xiv, 322 p. ill. ; maps ; 23 cm. book
Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-311) and index.
Contents: Preface vii -- 1 Whose Culture ? Whose City ? -- The Symbolic Economy ; Culture as an Economic Base ; Culture as a Means of Framing Space ; Public Space ; Security , Ethnicity , and Culture 1 -- 2 Learning From Disney World -- Real Theme Parks ; A Shared Public Culture ; The Spatial Reality of Virtual Reality ; Disney World as a Service Industry ; Disney ' s Symbolic Economy 49 -- 3 A Museum In The Berkshires with Philip Kasinitz -- Trouble in the Berkshires ; Global Art Worlds ; The Conceptual Museum ; Cultural Politics ; Museums and Metropolitan Culture 79 -- 4 High Culture And Wild Commerce In New York City -- Measuring the Arts Economy ; High Culture as Space and Symbol ; Landmarks ; Museums ; Times Square ; Jobs and Money ; A Culture Capital ? 109 -- 5 Artists And Immigrants In New York City Restaurants with Louis Amdur , Janet Baus , Philana Cho , Dalton Conley , Stephen Duncombe , Herman Joseph , Daniel Kessler , Jennifer Parker , and Huaishi Song 153 -- Restaurants as a Cultural Site ; Immigrants and Global Trends ; New York Restaurants ; Restaurant Employees ; The Social Division of Labor ; The Ethnic Division of Labor ; Restaurant Owners ; Symbolic Economy and World Economy -- 6 While The City Shops -- A Child ' s Cartography ; Ghetto Shopping Centers ; Downtown Brooklyn ; 125th Street ; Indoor Flea Markets ; Remembering Walter Benjamin 187 -- 7 The Mystique Of Public Culture -- The Meanings of Culture ; Cultural Strategies ; Seeing Visions ; A Word About Theory 259 -- References 295 -- Index 313 --
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Cities and towns Sociology urban City and town life Small cities.