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Hybrid Urbanism On the Identity Discourse and the Built Environment
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Nezar AlSayyad
Book Code: C6612
ISBN: 0-275-96612-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96612-6
272 pages, figures, maps, photos
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 3/30/2001
List Price: $125.00 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • Hybrid Urbanism provides one of the best summaries of the literature on identity discourse and the built environment that I have seen to date....This stimulating book illustrates the complexity of identity in relation to the built environment. The book should be on any graduate course reading list that deals with difference, identity, landscape, representation, the built environment, hybridity, multiculturalism, and so on.
    —International Planning Studies     2003
Description: Despite strong forces toward globalization, much of late 20th century urbanism demonstrates a movement toward cultural differentiation. Such factors as ethnicity and religious and cultural heritages have led to the concept of hybridity as a shaper of identity. Challenging the common assumption that hybrid peoples create hybrid places and hybrid places house hybrid people, this book suggests that hybrid environments do not always accommodate pluralistic tendencies or multicultural practices. In contrast to the standard position that hybrid space results from the merger of two cultures, the book introduces the concept of a "third place" and argues for a more sophisticated understanding of the principal. In contributed chapters, the book provides case studies of the third place, enabling a comparative and transnational examination of the complexity of hybridity. The book is divided into two parts. Part one deals with pre-20th century examples of places that capture the intersection of modernity and hybridity. Part two considers equivalent sites in the late 20th century, demonstrating how hybridity has been a central feature of globalization.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Hybrid Culture/Hybrid Urbanism: Pandora's Box of the "Third Place" by Nezar Alsayyad
  • Identity and Tradition in Premodern Urbanism
  • Cross-Cultural Currents: Swahili Urbanism in the Late Middle Ages by Thomas R. Gensheimer
  • Orchestrating Difference, Performing identity: Urban Space and Public Rituals in Nineteenth-Century Izmir by Sibel Zandi-Sayek
  • California Chinatowns: Built Environments Expressing the Hybrid Culture of Chinese Americans by Christopher L. Yip
  • A Colonial Portrait of Jerusalem: British Architecture in Mandate-Era Palestine by Ron Fuchs and Gilbert Herbert
  • Modernity, Globalization and Urban Form
  • Stages of Globalization in the African Context: Mombasa by Ali A. Mazrui
  • Rethinking Heritage Politics in a Global Context: A View from Istanbul by Ayfer Bartu
  • Learning From Chinatown: The Search for a Modern Chinese Architectural Identity, 1911-1998 by Anne-Marie Broudehoux
  • Building Culture in Divided Berlin: Globalization and the Cold War by Greg Castillo
  • Porous Boundaries: Fence Patterns and Mexican-American Identity in San Antonio, Texas by Robert Mugerauer
  • The Reverse Side of the World: Identity, Space, and Power by Ananya Roy
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 00-044131
LCC Class: HT119
Dewey Class: 307
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