From Urban Village to East Village

By Janet L. Abu-Lughod

Book Overview

Whereas the dominant model for the study of inner city neighbourhoods in the US has been that of the urban village or ethnic enclave - natural communities where residents share a common culture and pursue a relatively unified set of interests vis a vis outsiders - this study demonstrates the existence of a different reality within today's inner cities. Now numerous multi-ethnic, highly diversified districts contain sub-groups with varying lifestyles, class interests, goals and ideologies. The author argues that inner-city neighbourhoods have lost their common culture and consensus and have become, instead, a place of diverse groups which intermingle in physical space but pursue disparate lifestyles and conflicting goals.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155786523X
• ISBN13: 9781557865236
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.