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The cultures of cities /

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1557864365

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1557864373

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9781557864369

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9781557864376

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Title Proper

The cultures of cities /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Sharon Zukin

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge, MA :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Blackwell,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c1995

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xiv, 322 p. :

Other Physical Details

ill., maps ;

Dimensions

23 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-311) and index

Text of Note

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

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Cities and towns

City and town life

Sociology, Urban

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Book number

Zukin, Sharon

Date of Transaction

20140312064359.0

Electronic name

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