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When City & Community began about eight years ago—and in the third issue—I wrote about how certain concepts seemed to me to be vital to the study of cities. Though they lurked there in the background for many years, they did not themselves become the fo- cus of analytic attention and exploration until the past decade or so. Those two concepts, of course, are place and space. Owing to the writings of figures like Thomas Gieryn, David Hummon, Edward Relph, and Setha Low, among others—it is noteworthy that the parent- age of the concepts cuts across social science disciplines—place and space now help to animate a good deal of analytic work on the study of cities and other sites. Indeed, as I sit here, in a coffee bar in Shanghai, I have just come from a luncheon with a couple of Chinese urban sociologists who are excited about the possibilities for introducing these concepts more directly into urban research and thinking in Shanghai and China more broadly. The first two articles in this issue, one by Ryan Centner and the other by Margarethe Kusenbach, take space and place seriously, and move them in different directions. Cent- ner looks at
City and Community – SAGE
Published: Sep 1, 2008
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