A cross-cultural approach to urban space. This is a collection of essays providing a range of case studies which aim to address important questions about space and power, processes of change, aesthetics and attitudes towards space, and social divisions expressed through urban life.
A cross-cultural approach to urban space. This is a collection of essays providing a range of case studies which aim to address important questions about space and power, processes of change, aesthetics and attitudes towards space, and social divisions expressed through urban life.
ROBERT ROTENBERG is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the International Studies Program at DePaul University. He has conducted research in Vienna for fifteen years and has done urban analyses of Chicago and Toronto. GARY W. McDONOGH is Visiting Professor and Director of the Growth and Structure of Cities Program at Bryn Mawr. He has done research in Barcelona and Savannah and has published Good Families of Barcelona (1986).
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Introduction by Robert Rotenberg The Language of Place The Geography of Emptiness by Gary W. McDonogh On the Salubrity of Sites by Robert Rotenberg Chinese Privacy by Deborah Pellow Rediscovering Shitamachi: Subculture, Class, and Tokyo's "Traditional" Urbanism by Theodore C. Bestor Place in the City We Have Always Lived Under the Castle: Historical Symbols and the Maintenance of Meaning by John Mock Cultural Meaning of the Plaza: The History of the Spanish American Gridplan-Plaza Urban Design by Setha M. Low Italian Urbanscape: Intersection of Private and Public by Donald S. Pitkin Mapping Contested Terrains: Schoolrooms and Streetcorners in Urban Belize by Charles Rutheiser Planning and Response Beyond Built Form and Culture in the Anthropological Study of Residential Community Spaces by Margaret Rodman Housing Abandonment in Inner-City Black Neighborhoods: A Case Study of the Effects of the Dual Housing Market by Susan D. Greenbaum Access to the Waterfront: Transformations of Meaning on the Toronto Lakeshore by Matthew Cooper Public Access on the Urban Waterfront: A Question of Vision by R. Timothy Sieber Bibliography Index
Introduction by Robert Rotenberg The Language of Place The Geography of Emptiness by Gary W. McDonogh On the Salubrity of Sites by Robert Rotenberg Chinese Privacy by Deborah Pellow Rediscovering Shitamachi: Subculture, Class, and Tokyo's "Traditional" Urbanism by Theodore C. Bestor Place in the City We Have Always Lived Under the Castle: Historical Symbols and the Maintenance of Meaning by John Mock Cultural Meaning of the Plaza: The History of the Spanish American Gridplan-Plaza Urban Design by Setha M. Low Italian Urbanscape: Intersection of Private and Public by Donald S. Pitkin Mapping Contested Terrains: Schoolrooms and Streetcorners in Urban Belize by Charles Rutheiser Planning and Response Beyond Built Form and Culture in the Anthropological Study of Residential Community Spaces by Margaret Rodman Housing Abandonment in Inner-City Black Neighborhoods: A Case Study of the Effects of the Dual Housing Market by Susan D. Greenbaum Access to the Waterfront: Transformations of Meaning on the Toronto Lakeshore by Matthew Cooper Public Access on the Urban Waterfront: A Question of Vision by R. Timothy Sieber Bibliography Index
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