Communication, Conflict, and Community in an Urban Industrial Ruin
The revitalization of ethnic areas into urban historic districts is alternatively applauded as urban renewal and criticized as empty superficial attempts to evoke and spectacularize history merely as a means to attract tourists. Arguing that such critiques treat historic districts as static sites and infer passive observers, this study offers a communicative, dialogic approach to studying such sites. Focusing on several contemporary conflicts concerning the meaning of “community” in Ybor City, a national landmark historic district in Tampa, Florida, this study reveals how people actively occupy, struggle over, and use such urban spaces.
Seeking Culture in a Cultural Void? The Relationship Between Suburbia and Popular Culture Writing Suburbia: The Periphery in Novels The Sound of the Suburbs: Noise From Out of Nowhere? Pastoral Paradises and Social Realism: Cinematic Representations of Suburban Complexity Suburbia on the Box Women on the Edge? Representations of the Postwar Suburban Woman in Popular Culture to the Present Day Conclusion: Towards a Rewritten Heterogeneity of Suburbia