Despite strong forces toward globalization, much of late 20th
century urbanism demonstrates a movement toward cultural
differentiation. Such factors as ethnicity and religious and
cultural heritages have led to the concept of hybridity as a shaper
of identity. Challenging the common assumption that hybrid peoples
create hybrid places and hybrid places house hybrid people, this
book suggests that hybrid environments do not always accommodate
pluralistic tendencies or multicultural practices. In contrast to
the standard position that hybrid space results from the merger of
two cultures, the book introduces the concept of a third place and
argues for a more sophisticated understanding of the principal.
In contributed chapters, the book provides case studies of the
third place, enabling a comparative and transnational examination
of the complexity of hybridity. The book is divided into two parts.
Part one deals with pre-20th century examples of places that
capture the intersection of modernity and hybridity. Part two
considers equivalent sites in the late 20th century, demonstrating
how hybridity has been a central feature of globalization.
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