Main entry:

Zukin, Sharon.

Title & Author:

The cultures of cities / Sharon Zukin.

Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Blackwell, ©1995.

Description:

xiv, 322 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-311) and index.
Whose culture? Whose city? The symbolic economy ; Culture as an economic base ; Culture as a means of framing space ; Public space ; Security, ethnicity, and culture. -- Learning from Disney World. Real theme parks ; A shared public culture ; The spatial reality of virtual reality ; Disney World as a service industry ; Disney's symbolic economy. -- A museum in the Berkshires with Philip Kasinitz. Trouble in the Berkshires ; Global art worlds ; The conceptual museum ; Cultural politics ; Museums and metropolitan culture. -- High culture and wild commerce in New York City. Measuring the arts economy ; High culture as space and symbol ; Landmarks ; Museums ; Times Square ; Jobs and money ; A culture capital? -- Artists and immigrants in New York City restaurants with Louis Amdur, Janet Baus, Philana Cho, Dalton Conley, Stephen Duncombe, Herman Joseph, Daniel Kessler, Jennifer Parker, and Huaishi Song. Restaurants as a cultural site ; Immigrants and global trends ; New York restaurants ; Restaurant employees ; The social division of labor ; The ethnic division of labor ; Restaurant owners ; Symbolic economy and world economy. -- While the city shops. A child's cartography ; Ghetto shopping centers ; Downtown Brooklyn ; 125th Street ; Indoor flea markets ; Remembering Walter Benjamin. -- The mystique of public culture. The meanings of culture ; Cultural strategies ; Seeing visions ; A word about theory.

Summary:

"[This book]shows how three notions of culture - as ethnicity, aesthetic, and marketing tool - are reshaping urban places and conflicts over revitalization."--Publisher's description.

ISBN:

1557864365 (acid-free paper)
9781557864369 (acid-free paper)
1557864373 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9781557864376 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Cities and towns.
City and town life.
Sociology, Urban.
Small cities.
Cities
Petites villes.
Vie urbaine.
Sociologie urbaine.
Villes.
cities.
urban sociology.
towns.
Stadt
Stadtsoziologie
Zivilisation
Stadscultuur.
Sociale ontwikkeling.
Sociologia urbana.
Geografia urbana.
Cultura.
Comportamento social.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 84223
Call No.: ID HT109.Z85; ID:95-B3461
Status: Available