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Article: Return to the Center: Culture, Public Space, and City Building in a Global Era.(Book review)
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- The Geographical Review
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- January 1, 2009
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RETURN TO THE CENTER: Culture, Public Space, and City Building in a Global Era. By Lawrence A. Herzog. xxi and 273 pp.; maps, ills., bibliog., index. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0292712618; $24.95 (paper), ISBN 0292712626.
Urban geographers increasingly are forced to contemplate the impact of globalization on cities, and as they do so they are continually confronted by the constantly changing inner city. Inner cities experience fluctuations in investment, ranging somewhere between the extremes of chaotic profitability and devastating neglect. They become vital playing fields of dynamic cultural trends at the global, regional, ...