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Introduction: New Directions in Contemporary Urban Development
Author(s) -
Sieber R. Timothy
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
city and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1548-744X
pISSN - 0893-0465
DOI - 10.1525/city.1991.5.2.99
Subject(s) - post industrial society , postmodernity , metropolitan area , economic geography , restructuring , sociology , perspective (graphical) , urban anthropology , political science , urban planning , social science , geography , economy , modernity , urban density , economics , engineering , archaeology , artificial intelligence , computer science , law , civil engineering
LATE‐20TH‐CENTURY GLOBAL ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING, and emerging conditions of postindustrialism and postmodernity in the advanced capitalist world, present new challenges and opportunities for urban anthropology. Recently evolving urban forms and arrangements offer arenas for gaining new perspective on many enduring issues in the anthropology of complex societies, particularly those centering on the relations between cities and their broader metropolitan, regional, national, and global contexts. More holistic approaches with greater attention to historical and structural rather than microethnographic processes can yield the middle‐range analyses necessary to explain contemporary developments, [postindustrial cities, urban analysis, urban development, urban anthropology]