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The power of urban ethnic places : Cultural heritage and community life
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The Power of Ethnic Places discusses the growing visibility of ethnic heritage places in U.S. society. The book examines a spectrum of case studies of Chinese, Latino and African American communities in the U.S.,…
Colonial metropolis : The urban grounds of anti-imperialism and feminism in interwar Paris
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World War I gave colonial migrants and French women unprecedented access to the workplaces and nightlife of Paris. After the war they were expected to return without protest to their homes–either overseas or…
Building colonial cities of God: Mendicant orders and urban culture in New Spain
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This book tracks New Spain's mendicant orders past their so-called golden age of missions into the ensuing centuries and demonstrates that they had equally crucial roles in what Melvin terms the "spiritual…
The promise of the city : Space, identity and politics in contemporary social thought
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The Promise of the City proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh…
The city of the senses: Urban culture and urban space
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Offering an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to the city which opens up new ways of understanding urban culture and urban space, the author approaches the city as essentially a "material" place where…
Esquisses d'une anthropologie de la ville : lieux, situations, mouvements
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Au moment où la ville, dit-on, se "défait", le regard anthropologique s’avère plus nécessaire que jamais pour retrouver, sans préjugé ni…
Tourists, signs and the city: The semiotics of culture in an urban landscape
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Drawing upon the literature of landscape geography, tourism studies, cultural studies, visual studies and philosophy, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the interaction between urban…