City of Quarters: Urban Villages in the Contemporary City

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In cities throughout the world, there is an increasingly ubiquitous presence of distinct social and spatial areas - urban villages, cultural and ethnic quarters. These spaces are sites where capital and culture intertwine in new ways. City of Quarters brings together some of the most prominent authors writing about urban villages to provide the first systematic and multi-disciplinary overview of this high-profile urban phenomenon. They address key questions such as 'What is the role of urban villages and quarters in the contemporary city?' and 'What are the economic, political, socio-spatial and cultural practices and processes that surround these urban spaces?' Blending conceptual chapters with theoretically directed case studies from all over the world, this book includes issues such as local and regional development strategies, production, consumption, the creative industries, popular culture, identity, lifestyle, and tourism. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables List of Contributors 1 Conceptualizing the City of Quarters Part 1: Urban Regeneration 2 Pyrmont-Ultimo: the Newest Chic Quarter of Sydney 3 Drawn and Quartered: El Raval and the Haussmannization 4 Fables of the Reconstruction (of the Fables ...): Lower Manhattan after 9/11 Part 2: Production and Consumption 5 Cultural Industry Quarters: From Pre-Industrial to Post-Industrial Production 6 Supporting the Cultural Quarter? The Role of the Creative Intermediary 7 Popular Music, Urban Regeneration and Cultural Quarters: The Case of the Rope Walks, Liverpool 8 Quarterizing the City: The Spatial Politics of the Joyce Industry in Dublin Part 3: Identities, Lifestyles and Forms of Sociability 9 Nottingham's de facto Cultural Quarter: The Lace Market, Independents and a Convivial Ecology 10 Quartering Sexualities: Gay Villages and Sexual Citizenship 11 Finding Chinatown: Ethnocentrism and Urban Planning Part 4: Rethinking Neighbourhoods/Rethinking Quarters 12 Rethinking Neighbourhoods: From Urban Villages to Cultural Hubs 13 Red Lights and Safety Zones 14 Re-Discovering Coketown 15 The Culture of Neighbourhoods: A European Perspective 16 Afterword: Thinking in Quarters Bibliography Index