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Taylor & Francis Global Cities Local Streets Everyday Diversity from New York to Shanghai 2015 Edition by Sharon Zukin, Philip Kasinitz, Xiangming Chen
Global Cities, Local Streets: Everyday Diversity from New York to Shanghai, a cutting-edge text/ethnography, reports on the rapidly expanding field of global, urban studies through a unique pairing of six teams of urban researchers from around the world. The authors present shopping streets from each city - New York, Shanghai, Amsterdam, Berlin, Toronto, and Tokyo - how they have changed over the years, and how they illustrate globalization embedded in local communities. This is an ideal addition to courses in urbanization, consumption, and globalization..The book's companion website, www.globalcitieslocalstreets.org, has additional videos, images, and maps, alongside a forum where students and instructors can post their own shopping street experiences. Table of contents :- 1. Spaces of Everyday Diversity: The Patchwork Ecosystem of Local Shopping Streets by Sharon Zukin, Philip Kasinitz, and Xiangming Chen 2. From "Ghetto" to Global: Two Neighborhood Shopping Streets in New York City by Philip Kasinitz and Sharon Zukin 3. Commercial Development from Below: The Resilience of Local Shops in Shanghai by Hai Yu, Xiangming Chen, and Xiaohua Zhong 4. From Greengrocers to Cafes: Producing Social Diversity in Amsterdam by Iris Hagemans, Anke Hendriks, Jan Rath, and Sharon Zukin 5. Life and Death of the Great Regeneration Vision: Diversity, Decay, and Upgrading in Berlin's Ordinary Shopping Streets by Christine Hentschel and Talja Blokland 6. Toronto's Changing Neighborhoods: Gentrification of Shopping Streets by Katharine N. Rankin, Kuni Kamizaki and Heather McLean 7. Tokyo's "Living" Shopping Streets: The Paradox of Globalized Authenticity by Keiro Hattori, Sunmee Kim, and Takashi Machimura 8. Local Shops, Global Streets by Philip Kasinitz, Sharon Zukin, and Xiangming Chen 9. Research Note: How to Put a Transnational Project Together by Sharon Zukin, Philip Kasinitz, and Xiangming Chen