Re-Presenting the City : ethnicity, capital, and culture in the 21st-century metropolis. / edited by Anthony D. King. txt
Washington Square, New York : New York University Press , 1996Descripción: ix, 282 p. ill. ; 24 cmTipo de contenido:- text
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- HT151 R349 1996
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Representations of the city have typically focused on urban dichotomies such as renewal or decline, poverty or prosperity, and politics or culture. These simplistic portrayals leave many fundamental questions unanswered. What constitutes a city? What images and discourses are used to construct it? What makes city dwellers succeed or fail?
Discussing recent visual, architectural and spatial transformations in New York and other major world cities in relation to the themes of ethnicity, capital, and culture, Re- Presenting the City moves between interpretative representations of the newly emerging metropolis and the theoretical and methodological questions raised by the task of representation itself. Contributors from an wide range of backgrounds--urban planning, philosophy, sociology, folklore studies, cultural studies and architecture--reflect on the construction of both the real and the 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.
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 --
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 --