TY - BOOK AU - King,Anthony D. TI - Re-Presenting the City: ethnicity, capital, and culture in the 21st-century metropolis. SN - 9780814746790 AV - HT151 R349 1996 U1 - 307.76 20 PY - 1996/// CY - Washington Square, New York PB - New York University Press KW - Sociology urban KW - Local KW - Urban renewal KW - City planning N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents: Preface vii -- Axknowledgements ix -- Introduction : cities, texts and paradigms / Anthony D. King 1 -- Part I Ethnicity, Capital and Culture: Representationsw of New York City -- 1. Rebuilding the global city : economy, ethnicity and space / Saskia Sassen 23 -- 2. Space and symbols in an age of decline / Sharon Zukin 43 -- 3. Return to the future : Puerto Rican vernacular architecture in New York City / Joseph Sciorra 60 -- 4. After Tompkins Square Park : degentrification and the revanchist city / Neil Smith 93 -- Part II Ethnicity, Capital and Culture: Writing the City in Africa and South Asia -- 5. Bypassing New York in re-presenting eko : production of space in a Nigerian city / Nkiru Nzegwu 111 -- 6. Exploring Colombo : the relevance of a knowledge of New York / Nihal Perera 137 -- 7. Mombasa : three stages towards globalization / Ali A. Mazrui 158 -- Part III Urban Contexts: Reading and Writing the City -- 8. The city which is not one / John Tagg 179 -- 9. Analytic borderlands : race, gender and representation in the New City / Saskia Sassen 183 -- 10. Silent itineraries : making places in architectural history / Greig Crysler 203 -- 11. A guide to urban representation and what to do about it : alternative traditions of urban theory / Rob Shields 227 -- 12. Me(trope)olis : or Hayden White among the the urbanists / James S. Duncan 269 -- Notes on Contributors 269 -- Name Index 271 -- N2 - Classic representations of the city have focused on simplistic urban dichotomies such as renewal or decline, poverty or prosperity, and vice or vigor. We are left with the question of what actually constitutes a city and what makes it and its people succeed or fail. Recent writing on the city, however, has begun to question the images, metaphors, and discourses through which the contemporary city is represented -- ER -