Constructions of urban space

Urban space has emerged as the central organizing construct in studies of the post-modern metropolis. Contributors to this volume write on how urban space is used and contested by different social groups, how urban space is transformed by the changing economic relationships manifested in the new wor...

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Other Authors: Hutchinson, Ray.
Format: Electronic
Language: English
Published: Stamford, Conn. : JAI Press, 2000.
Series: Research in urban sociology ; v. 5.
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ISBN: 9781849500340 (electronic bk.) :
1849500347 (electronic bk.) :
9780762305407 (hbk.)
0762305401 (hbk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 297 p.) : ill.

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245 0 0 |a Constructions of urban space  |h [electronic resource] /  |c edited by Ray Hutchinson. 
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490 1 |a Research in urban sociology,  |x 1047-0042 ;  |v v. 5 
505 0 |a Introduction to constructions of urban space / Ray Hutchison -- Public spaces: a comparative discussion of the criteria for public space / Lewis W. Dijkstra -- New urban spaces and cultural representations: social imagineries, social-physical space, and homelessness / Talmadge Wright -- Spying on an eyesore: space, place, and urban decay / Paul Draus with Cornelius Howard -- Conflict, space, and identity: two cases, one process / Scott Swearington Cecilia Orellana-Rojas -- Spatial anarchy and urban utopias: public art controversies and urban space / Kim M. Babon -- Speaking the city: skateboarding subculture and recompositions of the urban realm / Iain Borden -- Representations of space and urban planning in a post-World War II U.S. city / Kevin Fox Gotham -- Toward an urban sociology of mega-events / Harry H. Hiller -- Tourism and the revitalization of Harlem / Lily M. Hoffman -- Distinguishing metropolises: the production of urban imagery / William G. Holt, III -- Red hook: the paradoxes of poverty and place in Brooklyn / Philip Kasinitz -- Gendered space and women's community work / Judith N. DeSena. 
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650 0 |a Public spaces. 
650 0 |a City planning. 
650 0 |a Space (Architecture) 
650 0 |a Urban geography. 
650 0 |a Urban policy. 
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650 7 |a Urban communities.  |2 bicssc 
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830 0 |a Research in urban sociology ;  |v v. 5. 
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