The cultures of cities /
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Cambridge, MA :
Blackwell,
1995.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
