Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Book Review

Book Review The Public Realm: Exploring the City's Quintessential Social Territory By Lyn H. Lofland New York: Aldine de Gruyter , 1998 305 pp. $52.95 (cloth), $25.95 (paper) Reviewed by Leon Anderson While I have no solid data on which to base my hunch, I would guess that there are at most only a few major academics, let alone sociologists, who were raised in the Alaska Territory. In fact, intellectuals who hail from the “Last Frontier” are probably as hard to find as unabashed urban enthusiasts who profess delight in the teeming vitality and diversity of urban street life. The chance that a scholar could lay claim to both would seem particularly remarkable. But such is the case for cityphile Lyn Lofland, whose recent book, The Public Realm: Exploring the City's Quintessential Social Territory , continues her scholarly contributions on urban life. Nearly thirty years ago, in ([1973] 1985) , Lofland provided the richest and most extensive interactionist study of urban public places to date. The Public Realm expands upon and enriches that earlier analysis, providing new insights into the social principles and pleasures to be found in city streets and other public places. Yet the book also sounds a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Symbolic Interaction Wiley

Book Review

Anderson, Leon
Symbolic Interaction , Volume 22 (3) – Nov 1, 1999
Download PDF
3 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/wiley/book-review-AUL6iqQV9I

References (0)

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
1999 Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
ISSN
0195-6086
eISSN
1533-8665
DOI
10.1525/si.1999.22.3.285
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

The Public Realm: Exploring the City's Quintessential Social Territory By Lyn H. Lofland New York: Aldine de Gruyter , 1998 305 pp. $52.95 (cloth), $25.95 (paper) Reviewed by Leon Anderson While I have no solid data on which to base my hunch, I would guess that there are at most only a few major academics, let alone sociologists, who were raised in the Alaska Territory. In fact, intellectuals who hail from the “Last Frontier” are probably as hard to find as unabashed urban enthusiasts who profess delight in the teeming vitality and diversity of urban street life. The chance that a scholar could lay claim to both would seem particularly remarkable. But such is the case for cityphile Lyn Lofland, whose recent book, The Public Realm: Exploring the City's Quintessential Social Territory , continues her scholarly contributions on urban life. Nearly thirty years ago, in ([1973] 1985) , Lofland provided the richest and most extensive interactionist study of urban public places to date. The Public Realm expands upon and enriches that earlier analysis, providing new insights into the social principles and pleasures to be found in city streets and other public places. Yet the book also sounds a

Journal

Symbolic Interaction – Wiley

Published: Nov 1, 1999

There are no references for this article.