Download or read book The Public City written by Philip J. Ethington and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-07-06 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip J. Ethington challenges the assumptions of several decades of urban history that treat American urban politics as the expression of social-group community experience. Instead, he maintains in The Public City, social-group identities of race, class, ethnicity, and gender were politically constructed in the public sphere in the process of political mobilization and journalistic discourse.