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" The cultures of cities / "
Sharon Zukin
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BL
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645016
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Zukin, Sharon
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The cultures of cities /\ Sharon Zukin
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, MA :: Blackwell,, c1995
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xiv, 322 p. :: ill., maps ;; 23 cm
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1557864365
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: 9781557864369
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: 1557864373
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: 9781557864376
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-311) and index
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| Contents
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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
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City and town life
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Sociology, Urban
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HT109.Z85 1995
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