City of Green Benches: Growing Old in a New Downtown (Anthropology of Contemporary Issues)

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Summary: An astute observer visits St. Petersburg, FL. Incredible!
Review: Anthropology, history, and a journalistic slant all combine to provide a thorough understanding of how government and commercial mechanisms can harm a neighborhood and, thus, its inhabitants.

Maria Vesperi is an incredibly gifted writer who clearly knows the literature of sociology, anthropology, and economics. There's a good dose of symbolic theory woven into her text and it comes across seamlessly. A great read!