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1. Foodies

   Democracy and Distinction in the Gourmet Foodscape

   By Josee Johnston, Shyon Baumann

   Series: Cultural Spaces

   This important new cultural analysis tells two stories about food. The first depicts good food as democratic. Foodies frequent ‘hole in the wall’ ethnic eateries, appreciate the pie found in working-class truck stops, and reject the snobbery of fancy French restaurants with formal table service....

   Published December 1st 2009 by Routledge
2. The Diaspora Strikes Back

   Caribeño Tales of Learning and Turning

   By Juan Flores

   Series: Cultural Spaces

   In The Diaspora Strikes Back the eminent ethnic and cultural studies scholar Juan Flores flips the process on its head: what happens to the home country when it is being constantly fed by emigrants returning from abroad? He looks at how 'Nuyoricans' (Puerto Rican New Yorkers) have transformed the...

   Published August 6th 2008 by Routledge
3. The Global Architect

   Firms, Fame and Urban Form

   By Donald McNeill

   Series: Cultural Spaces

   The Global Architect explores the increasing significance of globalization processes on urban change, architectural practice and the built environment. In what is primarily a critical sociological overview of the current global architectural industry, Donald McNeill covers the "star system" of...

   Published August 4th 2008 by Routledge
4. Branding New York

   How a City in Crisis Was Sold to the World

   By Miriam Greenberg

   Series: Cultural Spaces

   Winner of the 2009 Robert Park Book Award for best Community and Urban Sociology book! Branding New York traces the rise of New York City as a brand and the resultant transformation of urban politics and public life. Greenberg addresses the role of "image" in urban history, showing who produces...

   Published February 14th 2008 by Routledge
5. Capitalism's Eye

   Cultural Spaces of the Commodity

   By Kevin Hetherington

   Series: Cultural Spaces

   Capitalism's Eye is an extremely ambitious cultural history of how people experienced commodities in the era of industrial expansion. Writing against the dominant argument that the 'society of the spectacle' emerged fully formed in the mid-nineteenth century, Kevin Hetherington explains that the...

   Published August 19th 2007 by Routledge
6. Buyways

   Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape

   By Catherine Gudis

   Series: Cultural Spaces

   Published February 26th 2004 by Routledge
7. Silicon Alley

   The Rise and Fall of a New Media District

   By Michael Indergaard

   Series: Cultural Spaces

   Published January 6th 2004 by Routledge
8. After the World Trade Center

   Rethinking New York City

   Edited by Michael Sorkin, Sharon Zukin

   Series: Cultural Spaces

   The terrorist attacks of September 11 have created an unprecedented public discussion about the uses and meanings of the central area of lower Manhattan that was once the World Trade Center. While the city sifts through the debris, contrary forces shaping its future are at work. Developers jockey...

   Published April 18th 2002 by Routledge