When Culture Goes to Market: Space, Place and Identity in an Urban Marketplace
- ISBN-10
- 1433101947
- ISBN-13
- 9781433101946
- Category
- Eastern Market (Washington, D.C.)
- Pages
- 173
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- Peter Lang
- Author
- Robert J. Shepherd
Description
Author examines the Eastern Market of Washington and shows that this marketplace is an example of a social institution embedded in a particular time, place, and series of social relationships. Shepherd shows how urban public space is influenced by economic and social processes. Review in: Journal of cultural economics. 33(2009)1(.75-77).
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