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Seeing Cities Change: Local Culture and Class
Contributor(s): Krase, Jerome (Author)

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 ISBN: 1138111074     ISBN-13: 9781138111073
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE: $61.74  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology - General
- Social Science | Minority Studies
Dewey: 307.336
Series: Urban Anthropology
Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (0.94 lbs) 300 pages
 
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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.
 
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