Anthropological perspectives are not often represented in urban studies, even though many anthropologists have been contributing actively to theory and research on urban poverty, racism, globalization, and architecture. Theorizing the City corrects this omission by presenting twelve cross-cultural case studies focusing on the analysis of space and place.Five images of the city -- the divided city, the contested city, the global city the modernist city, and the postmodern city -- serve as the framework for the selected essays. These images highlight current research trends in urban anthropology, such as poststructural studies of race, class, and gender in the urban context; political economic studies of transnational culture; and studies of the symbolic and social production of urban space and planning.

Zusammenfassung
This text presents 12 cross cultural case studies, written from an anthropological perspective, focussing on the analysis of space and place. They present theory and research on urban poverty, racism, globalization, and architecture.

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Acknowledgments and Permissions
Introduction. Theorizing the City - Setha M. Low

Part 1 The Divided City
1 The Changing Significance of Race and Class in an African American Community - Steven M. Gregory
2 Creating Family Forms: The Exclusion of Mena and Teenage Boys from Families in the New York City Shelter System, 1987-1991 - Ida Susser
3 Fortified Enclaves: The New Urban Segregation - Teresa P. R. Caldeira

Part 2 The Contested City
4 Spatializing Culture: The Social Production and Social Construction of Public Space in Costa Rica - Setha M. Low
5 Landscape and Power in Vienna: Gardens of Discovery - Robert Rotenberg

Part 3 The Global City
6 Personal Relations and Divergent Economies: A Case Study of Hong Kong Investment in South China - Josephine Smart and Alan Smart
7 Wholesale Sushi: Culture and Commodity in Tokyo's Tsukiji Market - Theodore C. Bestor

Part 4 The Modernist City
8 The Modernist City and the Death of the Street - James Holston
9 The Power of Space in the Evolution of an Accra Zongo - Deborah Pellow

Part 5 The Postmodern City
10 Making Place in the Nonplace Urban Realm: Notes on the Revitalization of Downtown Atlanta - Charles Rutheiser
11 Discourses of the City: Policy and Responses in Post-Transitional Barcelona - Gary McDonogh
12 Spatial Discourses and Social Boundaries: Re-imagining the Toronto Waterfront - Matthew Cooper

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Index