Constructions of urban space /

Introduction to constructions of urban space / Ray Hutchison -- Public spaces: a comparative discussion of the criteria for public space / Lewis W. Dijkstra -- New urban spaces and cultural representations: social imagineries, social-physical space, and homelessness / Talmadge Wright -- Spying on an eyesore: space, place, and urban decay / Paul Draus with Cornelius Howard -- Conflict, space, and identity: two cases, one process / Scott Swearington Cecilia Orellana-Rojas -- Spatial anarchy and urban utopias: public art controversies and urban space / Kim M. Babon -- Speaking the city: skateboarding subculture and recompositions of the urban realm / Iain Borden -- Representations of space and urban planning in a post-World War II U.S. city / Kevin Fox Gotham -- Toward an urban sociology of mega-events / Harry H. Hiller -- Tourism and the revitalization of Harlem / Lily M. Hoffman -- Distinguishing metropolises: the production of urban imagery / William G. Holt, III -- Red hook: the paradoxes of poverty and place in Brooklyn / Philip Kasinitz -- Gendered space and women's community work / Judith N. DeSena.