Streets, Sidewalks, Stores, and Stories

Narrative and Uses of Urban Space

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20186285
AutoresTimothy A Simpson (Ohio University, autor correspondente)
Ano2000
Volume29
Fascículo6
Páginas682-716
Data de publicação2000-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/089124100029006002
OpenAlexW2099643737
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas13
Referências 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