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Re-presenting the city : ethnicity, capital and culture in the twenty-first century metropolis

ix, 282 pages : 24 cm Discussing recent visual, architectural and spatial transformations in New York and other major cities, this collection of essays moves between interpretative representations of the emerging metropolis and the theoretical and methodological questions raise Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction : cities, texts and paradigms / Anthony D. King -- Rebuilding the global city : economy, ethnicity and space / Saskia Sassen -- Space and symbols in an age of decline / Sharon Zukin -- Return to the future : Puerto Rican vernacular architecture in New York City …