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Introduction: scenes from Northeast Los Angeles -- Boulevards, gentrification, and urban culture -- The stages of neighborhood transition -- From Arroyo culture to NELA arts -- Neighborhood activism and slow growth -- Gentrification, displacement and the right to the city -- Conclusion: going back to the future

Doing ethnic history from coast to coast -- Ethnic communities and cultural heritage -- Ethnicity in America from World's Fair to world city -- Ethnic places, postmodernism, and urban change in Houston -- Heritage, art, and community development in Miami's Overtown and Little Havana -- Removal and renewal of Los Angeles Chinatown from the frontier Pueblo to the global city -- Preservation and cultural heritage in New York's Chinatown and Lower East Side and impact of the 9/11 disaster -- The death and life of urban ethnic places.

Immigration cities have counterbalanced deindustrialization and urban decline by acting as gateways of labor, capital, commodity, and cultural exchange in the new global economy. Ethnic places are emblematic transnational spaces that both constitute and convey broader processes of economic and cultural globalization. Ethnic entrepreneurs, community activists, and artists have revalorized spaces in the zone-in-transition, places from which they were historically restricted, evicted, or displaced. These rejuvenated ethnic places serve as "polyglot honeypots" for urban managers pursuing growth machine strategies in the postindustrial symbolic economy. Contradictions and conflicts are presented by globalization as much as opportunities.