Seeing Cities Change

Local Culture and Class

Jerome Krase (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

300 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-11107-3 (ISBN)

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Cities have always been dynamic social environments for visual and otherwise symbolic competition between the groups who live and work within them. In contemporary urban areas, all sorts of diversity are simultaneously increased and concentrated, chief amongst them in recent years being the ethnic and racial transformation produced by migration and the gentrification of once socially marginal areas of the city. Seeing Cities Change demonstrates the utility of a visual approach and the study of ordinary streetscapes to document and analyze how the built environment reflects the changing cultural and class identities of neighborhood residents. Discussing the manner in which these changes relate to issues of local and national identities and multiculturalism, it presents studies of various cities on both sides of the Atlantic to show how global forces and the competition between urban residents in 'contested terrains' is changing the faces of cities around the globe. Blending together a variety of sources from scholarly and mass media, this engaging volume focuses on the importance of 'seeing' and, in its consideration of questions of migration, ethnicity, diversity, community, identity, class and culture, will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists and geographers with interests in visual methods and urban spaces.

Jerome Krase is Murray Koppelman Professor and Professor Emeritus at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York, and author of Self and Community in the City, co-author of Ethnicity and Machine Politics, and co-editor of Race and Ethnicity in New York City, The Melting Pot and Beyond, and Ethnic Landscapes in an Urban World.

Introduction; 1: Seeing Diversity in New York City; 2: Seeing Little Italy Change; 3: Chinatown: A Visual Approach to Ethnic Spectacles; 4: Visualizing American Cities; 5: Polish and Italian Landscapes; 6: Seeing Ethnic Succession in Big Italy; 7: Gentrification in Poland and Polonia; 8: Seeing Community in a Multicultural Society; Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	04.07.2017
Reihe/Serie	Urban Anthropology
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-138-11107-4 / 1138111074
ISBN-13	978-1-138-11107-3 / 9781138111073
Zustand	Neuware