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... a Shanghai uniqueness that lives up to preconceived ideas about the city. subjectivity in-migration second society urban identity urban development ...

... and how media culture helped define shared urban identities. Documents in this part explore literacy and education, newspapers and magazines, the rise of radio, and projections of national identity on the big and small screen. They also shed light on how activists and governments have made use of many...

... enterprises that are most free to make this philosophical case for enacting a Shanghai uniqueness that lives up to preconceived ideas about the city. Urbanization subjectivity in-migration second society urban identity urban development eco-city new town satellite town urban-rural...

... Quiñones, and Danielle De Jesus engage with these issues, weaving them into their creative narratives. Their work becomes a response to the forces shaping their environment, offering critiques of capitalism and inserting cultural identities into urban landscapes. The essays underscore the importance...

... codifications of the linguistic and cultural heritage of Arabic-speaking immigrants emerged in the period from 1890 to 1930. From 1915 to 1960, various ethnic and religious urban social institutions were created to transmit these codifications. The numerous ethnic and national identities that circulated created...

..., and gentrification’s impact on ethnic identity. South Bronx architecture urban change casita gentrification ...

... feminine identity in Sinophone East Asia, the “young-mature lady”: urban, unmarried, white-collar women who are seen as individualistic in attitude, with a high level of education and a penchant for beauty and fashion consumption. Based on audience research, this chapter shows that the idealization...

... and an occupied realm, and depends on demonstrations of continual care and upkeep. The chapter argues that territoriality is foundational to how neighborhood identity is constituted and to urban ordering more generally. neighborhood security night watch territoriality ...

... more open than it was at any point in history. A cosmopolitan perspective permits that individual identities are not fixed and they are never simple. translation movement cosmopolitanism urbanism translation world literature ...

... This chapter is the first in part 2 of the book and focuses on how heritage preservation is being deployed as a pro-poor redistributive practice in Istanbul. It focuses on an alliance that formed between urban activists and the heritage machinery of the United Nations Educational, Scientific...

... by the workers in the migration process, ties that were maintained and expanded at work and in their urban experience. Such networks continued to be important in the formation of the social life of those migrants in the city and in the construction of their actions and political options. identities...

...Hinchas<italic>,</italic> Cracks<italic>, and</italic> Potreros <italic>in the City of Soccer</italic> Part IV, “ Hinchas , Cracks , and Potreros in the City of Soccer,” delves deeper into the city’s most celebrated pastime, locating its origins in the urban landscape, examining...

... This chapter details the marketing of reggaetón as “Hurban” (a combination of “Hispanic” and “urban”) once it entered the United States. Through a close reading of newspaper and magazine coverage of reggaetón, this chapter shows how the Hurban classification reinforced dominant distinctions...

... The epilogue contemplates how the work of establishing urban claims of belonging through architecture and building is ever contingent and unstable by connecting to the 1976–77 rotaka, a pogrom that revealed the perils of zanatany belonging. Tensions between newer and more established migrants...

... of this channel is the way it works to shore up the global orientation of young, urban, middle-class internationalist subjects, consolidating their consciousness of their own perceived potential for future mobility both outward, toward the global, and upward, toward upper-middle-class consumer lifestyles...

..., and a discussion of the twentieth-century debates about Puerto Rican national and racial identities. The chapter also includes an analysis of the relationship between place and race on the island to detail how multiple constructions of blackness, including “folkloric blackness” and “urban blackness” circulate...