[googlemaps https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1vlRV41yW1F-revIk0G9BkMSg9mA&w=640&h=480] *My Google Map chronicling the Place Matters sites and boroughs I have visited during this fellowships.* For my storytelling project with City Lore, I had a lot of freedom as to which Place Matters sites I chose to research and interview at. The first one was The Bronx Music Heritage Center (BMHC), next…
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Definition of a “field”: Thoughts on City Lore, cultural preservation, and community-organization relations
“Sociologists who study organizations sometimes use the term ‘field’ to describe a set of organizations linked together as competitors and collaborators within a social space devoted to a particular type of action — such as a market for certain products, the pursuit of urban development, or the realm of electoral politics. Agreements struck among the…
