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Book Review: Venice: A Contested Bohemia

Book Review: Venice: A Contested Bohemia Book Reviews VENICE:ACONTESTED BOHEMIA, by Andrew Deneer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. 336 pp. $31. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14001-8. Reviewed by Richard Lloyd Vanderbilt University Andrew Deener’s Venice: A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles is misleadingly subtitled, as bohemia makes up only one relatively small part of his wide-ranging account. That the book is in reality about far more than the famed neighborhood’s vaunted bohemian iden- tity is to its credit. Artists and lifestyle aesthetes impact a neighborhood’s identity far in excess of their relative numbers. Going beyond these attention hogs, Deener examines varied claimants on Venice, including black and Latino residents, a teeming homeless population, diverse neighborhood entrepreneurs, transitional renters, and hyperafflu- ent homeowners. Like Jane Jacobs in The Death and Life of Great American Cities (a book also centered on a famous bohemian neighborhood), Deener is far less concerned with the artist in the city than he is with the most fundamental problem of American urban studies—the everyday negotiation of city diversity. In this debut book, Deener moves to the front ranks of contemporary ethnographers who are simultaneously historians, writing a compelling “history of the present” that in- structs us not only on the contemporary diversity inscribed in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City and Community SAGE

Book Review: Venice: A Contested Bohemia

Lloyd, Richard
City and Community , Volume 12 (4): 1 – Dec 1, 2013
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Book Reviews VENICE:ACONTESTED BOHEMIA, by Andrew Deneer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. 336 pp. $31. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-14001-8. Reviewed by Richard Lloyd Vanderbilt University Andrew Deener’s Venice: A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles is misleadingly subtitled, as bohemia makes up only one relatively small part of his wide-ranging account. That the book is in reality about far more than the famed neighborhood’s vaunted bohemian iden- tity is to its credit. Artists and lifestyle aesthetes impact a neighborhood’s identity far in excess of their relative numbers. Going beyond these attention hogs, Deener examines varied claimants on Venice, including black and Latino residents, a teeming homeless population, diverse neighborhood entrepreneurs, transitional renters, and hyperafflu- ent homeowners. Like Jane Jacobs in The Death and Life of Great American Cities (a book also centered on a famous bohemian neighborhood), Deener is far less concerned with the artist in the city than he is with the most fundamental problem of American urban studies—the everyday negotiation of city diversity. In this debut book, Deener moves to the front ranks of contemporary ethnographers who are simultaneously historians, writing a compelling “history of the present” that in- structs us not only on the contemporary diversity inscribed in

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Published: Dec 1, 2013

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