Streets, Sidewalks, Stores, and Stories

Narrative and Uses of Urban Space

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20186285
AutoresTimothy A Simpson (Ohio University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Volumen29
Número6
Páginas682-716
Fecha de publicación2000-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/089124100029006002
OpenAlexW2099643737
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas20

This article is an interpretive ethnography of young people's uses of spaces in Ybor City, a National Historic Landmark District in Tampa, Florida. The analysis focuses particularly on a record store popular with young people. The author seeks to understand why it and other places attract particular groups of people and to discern the character of the public life generated by the ways people occupy such spaces. The narrative quality of spaces is crucial to understanding why people choose to gather in them and also suggests something about the tenor of public life in contemporary America. People are attracted to narrative spaces that in their ambiguity offer the possibility of an interactive public life, yet when people gather in those spaces, they often merely congregate into separate “lifestyle enclaves” and display their difference from other groups

Aesthetics · Ambiguity · Art · Ethnography · Linguistics · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Public relations · Public space · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Music History and Culture · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior · Public Spaces through Art