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1 online resource (xvii, 297 p.) : ill. Urban space has emerged as the central organizing construct in studies of the post-modern metropolis. Contributors to this volume write on how urban space is used and contested by different social groups, how urban space is transformed by the changing economic relationships manifested in the new world order, and how urban space is defined by those who use and study it. Introduction to constructions of urban space / Ray Hutchison -- Public spaces: a comparative discussion of the criteria for public space / Lewis W. Dijkstra -- New urban spaces and cultural representations: social imagineries, social-physical space, and homelessness / Talmadge Wright -- Spying on an eyesore: space, place, and urban decay / Paul Draus with Cornelius Howard -- Conflict, space, and identity: two cases, one process / Scott Swearington Cecilia Orellana-Rojas -- Spatial anarchy and urban utopias: public art controversies and urban space / Kim M. Babon -- Speaking the city: skateboarding subculture and recompositions of the urban realm / Iain Borden -- Representations of space and urban planning in a post-World War II U.S. city / Kevin Fox Gotham -- Toward an urban sociology of mega-events / Harry H. Hiller -- Tourism and the revitalization of Harlem / Lily M. Hoffman -- Distinguishing metropolises: the production of urban imagery / William G. Holt, III -- Red hook: the paradoxes of poverty and place in Brooklyn / Philip Kasinitz -- Gendered space and women's community work / Judith N. DeSena. edited by Ray Hutchinson. Sociology, Urban Public spaces City planning Space (Architecture) Urban geography Urban policy Social research & statistics Urban communities Social Science Sociology General HT101 .R39 v.5 307.76 316 Stamford, Conn. : JAI Press, c2000 (OCoLC)43920710 9781849500340 (electronic bk.) : 1849500347 (electronic bk.) : http://www.emeraldinsight.com/1047-0042/5 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/1047-0042/5 VVL 090512 20171018091357.0 ocn320817322 eng