So begins The Cultural Meaning of Urban Space, a compilation of urban case studies edited by Robert Rotenberg, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the International Studies Program at DePaul University, and Gary W. McDonogh, Visiting Professor and Director of the Growth and Structure of Cities Program at Bryn Mawr. These twelve very diverse chapters attempt to understand the construction of an urban landscape from the cultural and social perspectives of those groups that experience and manipulate the landscape
Urban cultural policy is one of those elusive terms for which there seems to be no definitive defini...
[Extract] Over the last twenty years, social scientists have engaged in ongoing debates to extend th...
Total urban mobilization seeks meaning and reasons for the probability of post capitalist city in fu...
Seeing Cities Change demonstrates the utility of a visual approach and the study of ordinary streets...
Urban Maps concerns the city and the devices that define the urban environment by their presence, re...
Aimed primarily at an audience of archaeologists, architects, historians, cultural geographers, and ...
For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community...
Place-making’, ‘place identity’ and ‘sense of place’ have been widely used by cities in their urban...
Joshua Long makes a fine contribution to the literature on urban places with Weird City. It is writt...
Review of Spatiality and Symbolic Expression: On the Links between Place and Culture edited by Bill ...
In his latest book of cultural analysis, George Melnyk deplores the fact that although the great maj...
[Extract] Re-framing Urban Space is a compelling and engaging book that advocates the need for recon...
Postwestern Cultures addresses the highly charged and continually shifting meanings of a space tha...
Total urban mobilization seeks meaning and reasons for the probability of post capitalist city in fu...
Dancing Beijing residents turn overpasses into impromptu stages; San Francisco parking spaces become...
Urban cultural policy is one of those elusive terms for which there seems to be no definitive defini...
[Extract] Over the last twenty years, social scientists have engaged in ongoing debates to extend th...
Total urban mobilization seeks meaning and reasons for the probability of post capitalist city in fu...
Seeing Cities Change demonstrates the utility of a visual approach and the study of ordinary streets...
Urban Maps concerns the city and the devices that define the urban environment by their presence, re...
Aimed primarily at an audience of archaeologists, architects, historians, cultural geographers, and ...
For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community...
Place-making’, ‘place identity’ and ‘sense of place’ have been widely used by cities in their urban...
Joshua Long makes a fine contribution to the literature on urban places with Weird City. It is writt...
Review of Spatiality and Symbolic Expression: On the Links between Place and Culture edited by Bill ...
In his latest book of cultural analysis, George Melnyk deplores the fact that although the great maj...
[Extract] Re-framing Urban Space is a compelling and engaging book that advocates the need for recon...
Postwestern Cultures addresses the highly charged and continually shifting meanings of a space tha...
Total urban mobilization seeks meaning and reasons for the probability of post capitalist city in fu...
Dancing Beijing residents turn overpasses into impromptu stages; San Francisco parking spaces become...
Urban cultural policy is one of those elusive terms for which there seems to be no definitive defini...
[Extract] Over the last twenty years, social scientists have engaged in ongoing debates to extend th...
Total urban mobilization seeks meaning and reasons for the probability of post capitalist city in fu...