Reconceptualizing the ‘Inner City’

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 9
4. Narratives of Urban Transformation 11
5. Models of Urban Transformation
6. “Federal City,” “Federal Town,” “Washingtonople” 29
7. Insignificance at the Interstate 43
8. Moving Spaces 67
9. Parasitic Simulacrum 81
10. Mapping EthniCity
11. Negotiating Germanness after World War II 101
12. Transnational U.S. Literature 131
13. Barrio Spaces as Alter-Narratives 163
14. Chinatown’s Lived and Mystified Foodscapes, 1880s-1990s 187
15. The Transformation of Manhattan’s Chinatown in Hungarian Travel Writing 211
16. Liminality and the American City
17. Detecting Chinatown 233
18. Lost in the Stacks 257
19. Fueling Change 275
20. The Urban Frontier in Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day 299
21. Contested Spaces
22. Ways into and out of the Crisis 325
23. Reconceptualizing the ‘Inner City’ 341
24. Mapping Gentrification Processes through Film 359
25. “[A] freeing of myself from this life from this city” 373
26. Perspectives in Urban American Studies
27. City Scripts 395
28. Authors 421