| Description |
1 online resource (215 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgments; 1: Culture at Work: The Arts, Branding, and Neighborhood Transformation; 2: Latin Soul, Latin Flavor: Performing the Authenticity of Place; 3: The Art World of the Barrio: Sources of Attraction and Motivation; 4: Ringing the Registers: Entrepreneurial Dreams; 5: Stigma, Status, and Staging: The History of a Reputation; 6: Character on Parade: Cultural Constraints on Neighborhood Branding; 7: Redemption and Revitalization in the Barrio: A Tentative Conclusion; Appendix: Telling it Like it Was: Methods and Data; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
| Summary |
How does a so-called bad neighborhood go about changing its reputation? Is it simply a matter of improving material conditions or picking the savviest marketing strategy? What kind of role can or should the arts play in that process? Does gentrification always entail a betrayal of a neighborhood's roots? Tackling these questions and offering a fresh take on the dynamics of urban revitalization, The Philadelphia Barrio examines one neighborhood's fight to erase the stigma of devastation. Frederick F. Wherry shows how, in the predominantly Latino neighborhood of Centro de Oro, entrepreneurs and c |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-188) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hispanic American neighborhoods -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
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Community development -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
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Community arts projects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
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Community arts projects
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Community development
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Hispanic American neighborhoods
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Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rocco, Tony
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| ISBN |
9780226894461 |
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0226894460 |
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9786613362926 |
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6613362921 |
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1283362929 |
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9781283362924 |
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9780226894317 |
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0226894312 |
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9780226894324 |
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0226894320 |
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