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Summary
Summary
Cities have always been dynamic social environments for visual and otherwise symbolic competition between the groups who live and work within them. In contemporary urban areas, all sorts of diversity are simultaneously increased and concentrated, chief amongst them in recent years being the ethnic and racial transformation produced by migration and the gentrification of once socially marginal areas of the city. Seeing Cities Change demonstrates the utility of a visual approach and the study of ordinary streetscapes to document and analyze how the built environment reflects the changing cultural and class identities of neighborhood residents. Discussing the manner in which these changes relate to issues of local and national identities and multiculturalism, it presents studies of various cities on both sides of the Atlantic to show how global forces and the competition between urban residents in 'contested terrains' is changing the faces of cities around the globe. Blending together a variety of sources from scholarly and mass media, this engaging volume focuses on the importance of 'seeing' and, in its consideration of questions of migration, ethnicity, diversity, community, identity, class and culture, will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists and geographers with interests in visual methods and urban spaces.
Author Notes
Jerome Krase is Murray Koppelman Professor and Professor Emeritus at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York, and author of Self and Community in the City, co-author of Ethnicity and Machine Politics, and co-editor of Race and Ethnicity in New York City, The Melting Pot and Beyond, and Ethnic Landscapes in an Urban World.
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Choice Review
Krase's provocative, encyclopedic text offers an impassioned plea for the recognition and use of visual data, especially cityscapes and photography, within arguments about urban community and social difference. Recapitulating an extensive career of research deeply anchored in studies of New York neighborhoods with counterpoints from Europe and other travels, the author also extensively reviews urban visual studies in the sociological tradition, with some recognition of other ethnographic and critical traditions. With Krase (CUNY) as personable guide and analyst, readers move rapidly through New York's Little Italy and Polish neighborhoods, across global Chinatowns, into emergent multi-ethnic areas of Rome and along gentrifying streets of Greenpoint (New York) and Krakow (Poland) in chapters linked to copious photos and useful social citations. Unfortunately, the sheer scale of coverage proves frustrating and sometimes undercuts the complexity of methods, data, and argument that underpins a more demanding and productive concept of social visual analysis. Fewer photos coupled with even more time and guidance would turn this demand for recognition into an even more exciting example of methods and depth of argument for students and scholars across the social sciences. Summing Up: Recommended. All levels/libraries. G. W. McDonogh Bryn Mawr College
