Cities of Difference

Edited by Ruth Fincher and Jane M. Jacobs

Paperback
Paperback
March 20, 1998
ISBN 9781572303102
Price: $49.00
322 Pages
Size: 6" x 9"
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How can contemporary theories of difference enhance our understanding of traditional urban studies concerns such as housing, labor markets, and structures of state entitlement? What are the connections between urban space and identity politics? 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.