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Acknowledging the Anthony Leeds Prize in Urban Anthropology, 2003

Acknowledging the Anthony Leeds Prize in Urban Anthropology, 2003 Cities unplanned, unsuited and always running second to their work from “Cities,” A. Leeds, 1952 here are people whose influence is like that of an aquifer: vital, invisible, transient—they last only so long—and impossible to imagine one’s own life without. I only met Tony Leeds once. It was in 1983, shortly after what the Pentagon (in an eerily prescient exercise of its present-day surrealism), referred to as a “predawn vertical insertion.” More colloquially, this was known as the Granada invasion. We were at some obscure U.N. sponsored conference in New York, where I spoke about the century-old practice of homeless people camping out in Central Park. I have no idea why I—or Tony, for that matter—had been invited. In his loud, irreverent fashion, he pronounced the work sound and instantly recruited me to some not-very-well-specified collaborative project. Alas, the anarchic fruit of that reckless enlistment was never to be harvested, thwarted by Tony’s death a few years later. But his writings—and the once-removed support of his friends and colleagues, Roger Sanjek and Tim Sieber especially—have proven near constants in my professional life since. Tony was one of a handful of urban anthropologists at that time to speak openly http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

Acknowledging the Anthony Leeds Prize in Urban Anthropology, 2003

HOPPER, KIM
City & Society , Volume 16 (1) – Jun 1, 2004
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Cities unplanned, unsuited and always running second to their work from “Cities,” A. Leeds, 1952 here are people whose influence is like that of an aquifer: vital, invisible, transient—they last only so long—and impossible to imagine one’s own life without. I only met Tony Leeds once. It was in 1983, shortly after what the Pentagon (in an eerily prescient exercise of its present-day surrealism), referred to as a “predawn vertical insertion.” More colloquially, this was known as the Granada invasion. We were at some obscure U.N. sponsored conference in New York, where I spoke about the century-old practice of homeless people camping out in Central Park. I have no idea why I—or Tony, for that matter—had been invited. In his loud, irreverent fashion, he pronounced the work sound and instantly recruited me to some not-very-well-specified collaborative project. Alas, the anarchic fruit of that reckless enlistment was never to be harvested, thwarted by Tony’s death a few years later. But his writings—and the once-removed support of his friends and colleagues, Roger Sanjek and Tim Sieber especially—have proven near constants in my professional life since. Tony was one of a handful of urban anthropologists at that time to speak openly

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