Titlebook: Re-Presenting the City; Ethnicity, Capital a Anthony D. King Textbook 1996Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Limited 1996 capital.culture.

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Textbook 1996Latest editiont on the construction of both the real and unreal city, the images, metaphors and discourses through which the contemporary city is represented, and the texts which both mediate our experience of, as well as contribute to producing, the city of the future.

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Introduction: Cities, Texts and Paradigmst had become established over the previous decade. Variously described as ‘the new urban studies’ or ‘urban political economy’, the approach was characterised by a number of assumptions: urbanism (and urbanisation) could not just be taken for granted but required definition and explanation, since th

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Rebuilding the Global City: Economy, Ethnicity and Spacehe corporate city of high-rise office buildings, the old dying industrial city, the immigrant city. A space of power; a space of labor and machines; a Third World space. Are they indeed three separate cities, each belonging to a different historico/geographic phase? Or do they presuppose each other

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Space and Symbols in an Age of Declineng different circuits of capital that transfer the ownership and uses of land from one social class to another. Its basic terms are land, labor and capital. The other school of thought, identified with a symbolic economy, focuses on representations of social groups and visual means of excluding or i

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After Tompkins Square Park: Degentrification and the Revanchist Citys later, real estate agents and urban commentators quickly began deploying the language of ‘de-gentrification’ to represent the apparent reversal of urban change in the 1990s. ‘With the realty boom gone bust in once gentrifying neighborhoods’, writes one newspaper reporter, ‘co-op converters and spe

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Exploring Colombo: The Relevance of a Knowledge of New Yorken undergoing — at various scales — over the past two decades. They also point to the agencies involved and the conflicts arising from this process. Yet at the same time, their exclusive focus on New York gives the impression that ‘the city’ in general is in fact New York City. In assessing the rele