Notes on Contributors Greig Crysler is an architect and also editor of A/RIC (Architecture/ Research/Criticism), Toronto. He is currently in the History and Theory of Art and Architecture doctoral program, Binghamton University, State University of New York. James S. Duncan is Professor of Geography and Director of the Humanities Doctoral Program, Syracuse University. His most recent book is Culture/ Place/Representation (Routledge, 1993), edited with David Ley; he is also co-author (with Nancy Duncan) of the forthcoming Deep Surburban Irony: Deconstructing History, Localism and Nature in a Westchester County Town. Anthony D. King is Professor of Art History and of Sociology, Binghamton University, State University of New York, and holds a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (1994--95). His most recent (edited) book is Culture, Globalization and the World-System (Macmillan Education, London, and Art History, SUNY, Binghamton, 1991). Ali A. Mazrui is Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is also Albert Luthuli Professor-at-Large, University of Jos, Nigeria, and Senior Scholar and Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large Emeritus, Cornell University. His most recent books are Cultural Forces in World Politics (Heinemann, 1990) and Africa Since 1935 (editor and co-author, UNESCO, 1993). Nkiru Nzegwu is Assistant Professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Art History, Binghamton University, State University of New York. A visual artist, Dr. Nzegwu has had exhibitions in Lagos, Ottawa and New York, and contributed recent articles to International Review of African American Art, American Anthropologist, and the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence. Nihal Perera is an architect planner from Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he was chief architect-planner for the Mahaweli Development Project. He recently completed his Ph.D. in the History and Theory of Art and 269 270 Notes on Contributors Architecture doctoral program, Binghamton University, State University of New York. Saskia Sassen is Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University. Her most recent books are Cities in the World Economy (Pine Forge/Sage, 1994) and The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo (Princeton University Press, 1991 ). In 1992, Saskia Sassen was Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Art History, State University of New York at Binghamton. Joseph Sciorra is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Folklore and Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent book is R.I.P.: New York Spraycan Memorials, with photographer Martha Cooper (Thames and Hudson, London; and Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1994). Rob Shields, Associate Professor of Sociology and Co-director of the Center for Research on Culture and Society, Carleton University, is currently (1995) teaching in the Department of Sociology, University of Lancaster. His most recent books are Places on the Margin: Alternate Geographies of Modernity (Routledge, 1991) and Lifestyle Shopping, editor (Routledge, 1992). Neil Smith is Professor of Geography and Chair, Rutgers University. He is the co-editor of Gentrification of the City (Allen & Unwin, 1986) and Geography and Empire (1994) and is completing a study of Isaiah Bowman, The Geographical Pivot of History. John Tagg is Professor of Art History, Binghamton University, State University of New York. His most recent book is Grounds of Dispute: Art History, Cultural Politics and the Discursive Field (Macmillan, 1993). Sharon Zukin is Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her most recent books are Landscapes of Power (University of California Press, 1991), winner of the C. Wright Mills Award and The Culture of Cities (Blackwell, 1995). Index Aba, 134 America, -n, -s, 11, 30, 50, 139, 142, 152, Abeokuta, 116 162, 164, 166, 167, 199, 204, 250, Abeysinghe, A., 156 206, 207, 208, 209, 215, 216, Abidjan, 173 218, 219, 222, 223, 225, 232, 237, Abou-El-Haj, B., 200 260, 261 Abrams, R. D., 90, 91 American Folklore Society, 86 Abu-Lughod, J., 135 Amerindian, 64, 66 Ahuja, 11, 133, 134 Amiens, 210 Abyssinia, 160 Amis, P., 135 Accra, 173 Amsterdam, 244 Adams, N., 213, 216, 224, 225 Anderson, K., 249, 250 Addis Ababa, 173 Andre Hemmerich Gallery, 48 Addiss, J., 224 Andrew, C., 250 Aden, 166 Anglo-Saxon, 138, 139, 249 Adler, S., 250 Angola, 174 Afrabia, 172 Anuradhapura, 150, 152 Mrica, 158-78 Apapa, 118 Africa Leadership Forum, 173 Aponte-Pares, L., 86 Africa, -n, viii, 5, 12, 13, 66, 90, 112, Apoupon, 128, 130 119, 123, 127 Appleyard, D., 251 African Development Bank, 73 Arab, -ic, 159, 160, 163, 165, 170, 171, African-American, -s, 101, 104, 187, 172 193, 195, 197, 231 Arabia, 160 Agnew, J., 59, 266 Arap Moi, D., 170, 174 Agudas, 123 Archea, J., 251 AIDS, 103, 167, 168 Argentina, 6 Aig-Imoukhouede, F., 136 Argentine, -an, 139 Aina, T. A., 123, 135, 136 Armory, 39 Akinola, G.A., 175 Armstrong, A., 175 Akinsemoyin, K., 135 Armstrong, W., 157 Akitoye, 118 ASEAN, 154 Alaska, 225 Asia, -n, viii, 5. 13, 138, 139, 142, 143, Alexander's, 48 145, 156, 158, 159, 160, 170, 171 Algeria, 172 Association of Mrican Universities, 173 Algiers, 237 Association of Collegiate Schools of Allah, 133 Architecture (ACSA), 221 Allen, J.de V., 175, 176 Atlanta, 102 Allen, J. W. T., 175 Atlantic, 169 Alsayyad, N., 135 Attinasi, J ., 88 Altman's, 48 Australia, -ns, 138, 141, 154, 156 271 272 Index Austria, 40 Bhabha, H., 10, 12, 248, 249, 250, 252 Awolowo, 128, 130 Bhutan, 156 Awori, -s, ll6, 134 Biafra, -n, 133 Axis, 165 Bible, 168 Aysan, Y., 222 Billingsgate, 240 Azeez, M., 153 Black Africa, -n, 171 Azevedo, C. de, 175 Blackmar, E., 59 Blade Runner, 48 Blaize, C. 0., 136 Babangida, President, 133 Blonsky, M., 251 Bagh, C. V., 105 Bloom, H., 259, 267 Bairoch, P., 156 Bloomingdale's, 48 Bakara, M. b. M., 175 Blumenthal, R., 106 Baker, P. H., 175 Bocock, K., 17 Bakhtin, M., 16, 64, 65, 87, 89, 90, 239, Bolling, K., 267 240, 245, 250, 251 Bonilla, F., 42 Balogun, 130 Borguwa, 119 Balzac, 247 Bourdieu, P., 200, 247 Bamgbose, 127 Bourgeois, P., 194, 201 Bandaranayake, S., 156 Bourne, L. S., 93, 106 Baudrillard, J., 250 Boxer, C. R., 175 Bangladesh, 156, 171, 20 l Boyer, C. M., 58 Bank of the North, 127 Bradlow, F. R., 175 Bank of Ceylon, 144, 155 Branco, 125 Bannister, T., 221 Brazil, 141 Bar On, B.A., ix Brazilian Yoruba, 123, 125 Baraka, A., 94 Brecher, J., 41 Barbados, -ians, 102 Bristol Hotel, 119, 127 Barclay's Bank, 127 British, 2, 117, 120, 138, 139, 140, 144, Barnes, C. F., 208 145, 149, 152, 153, 155, 158, 163, Barnes, T., 4, 18 164, 165, 168, 170 Barnes, T. J., 266 British Raj, 163 Barthes, R., 17, 255, 262, 263, 264, 265, Broad Street, ll9, 130 267, 268 Broeze, F., 155 Bartlett, S., 91 Bronner, S., 86 Basu, D. K., 156 Bronx, 8, 73, 81, 84, 85, 86 Batavia, 138 Brooklyn, 55, 57, 75, 89, 99 Battery Park City, 53, 54 Bruges, 7 Beauregard, R., 94, 106 Bruntland, G. M., 174 Beijing, 172 Brunvand, J. H., 246 Belgium, 156 Bryant, J., ix Bell, Daniel., 220 Bryant Park, 55 Bell, Don, ix Buck-Morss, S., 229, 247 Benin, 119 Buddha, 150 Benitez, M., 90 Buddhist, 147, 149, 150, 151 Benitiz-Rojo, A., 91 Burdett, R., 201 Benjamin, W., 15, 16, 229, 230, 231, Burgess, E. W., 17, 255, 256, 258, 259, 241, 245, 247 262, 263, 264, 265, 267 Bennet, J., 107 Burghers, 147, 149 Berkshires, 58 Burgos, V., 71 Berlin, 13, 40 Burke, K., 267 Bermann, M., 84, 89, 91 Burma, 165 Berque, A., 252 Byrne, M., 91 Index 273 Cairns, M., 175 Coker. F., 135 Cairo, 135 Colombia, -ns, 102 Calabar, 134 Colombo, 10, 11, 137-53, 156, 157 Caliban, 164 Colomina, B., 201 Campos Square, 118, 123 Columbia St., 75 Canada, 6, 138, 139 Columbus, C., 139 Canary Wharf, 48, 49 Commonwealth, 165 Cape Town, 138 Con Edison, 83 Caraballo, J., 81 Conant, K. J., 204 Caribbean, 61, 63, 64, 65, 70, 73, 76 Coney Island, 89 Carter Bridge, 119 Constabulary, 119, 128 Carter, J., 166 Cooper, F., 175 Cashdan, L., 91 Cooper, M., ix, 62, 67, 72, 74, 80 Castagena, M., 76 Cooperative Bank, 127 Castells, M., 2, 13, 18, 19, 30, 41, 202 Coras, 119 Cave, H. W., 157 Cortes, F., 88 Central Bank, 127, 130 Cote d'Ivoire, 173 Central Business District, 143 Coto, M., 81 Central Park, 54, 55, 104 Crown, 123 Ceylon, -ese, 138, 139, 140, 144, 150 Crown Heights, 50 Chad, 119 Crysler, G., vii, 14, 16, 203-26 Chaney, E. M., 88 Cuff, D., 217, 225 Chemical and Manufacturers' Hanover Culler, J., 214, 224 Bank, 48 Cultural Triangle, 152 Chewing, J. A., 220 Cutter, J., 41 Chicago, 17, 51, 257, 259, 264, 265 Chicago School of Human D-Day, 165 Ecology, 255, 258, 259 da Costa, J., 125 Chief Executive Officers (CEO), 132 da Gama, V., 162 Childe, J. B., 41 Daedalus, 228 Childers, E., 248, 252 Darwinism, 258 China, -ese, 102, 141, 170, 171, 172, 173, Datoo, B. A., 175 201 Davenport, M., 156 Chinatown, 103, 104, 237, 249 Davis, M., 17, 59, 95, 255, 259, 260, Chittick, N., 175 261, 263, 265 Choay, F., 19 Davison, G., 258, 267 Chrisman, L., 19 Dawodu, W. A., 136 Christ, -ian, 147, 223 de Blij, H. J., 134, 176 Christian Missionary Society, 136 de Certeau, 15, 223, 224, 228, 229, 231, Christianity, 158 232, 234, 245, 246, 248 Chtcheglov, 1., 251, 244, 252 de Lauretis, T., 248 Church Avenue, 57 de Oviedo, G. F., 66 Cinnamon Gardens, 150 Dear, M., 154, 250 Cirese, A.M., 91 Debord, G., 251 Civilian Review Board, 96 Debray, R., 225 Clammer, J., 252 Deleuze, G., 16, 180, 241, 245, 246, 251 Clark, K., 250 Democratic Socialists of America, 97 Clemente, R., 73 Denton Bridge, 119 Clifford, J., 19, 87, 244, 266 Derrida, J., 16, 232, 233, 236, 241, 245 CN Tower (Toronto), 228 Deutsch, R., 58, 114, 135 Cobbett, W., 9 Dhakka, 156 Cohen, R.