Cities of difference

• Main Author: Fincher, Ruth (Author)
• Other Authors: Jacobs, Jane M. 1958- (Jane Margaret)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Guilford Press 1998
• Subjects: Sociology, Urban; Power (Social sciences); Group identity
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• Physical Description: x, 322 pages illustrations 24 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 1572303115; 9781572303119

This provocative text provides fresh perspectives on the fragmented city within a cultural political economy framework. Contributors explore the role of race, ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality, able-bodiedness, and other axes of difference in the geography of postmodern cities. Using a range of cutting-edge theoretical and methodological approaches, the book probes the relationship of the broader realities of urban life--economic polarization, gentrification, and the proliferation of sites of consumption to the everyday life and political power of different communities.