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Setha Low

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#262

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Setha Low's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Setha M. Low is a former president of the American Anthropological Association, a professor in environmental psychology, and the director of the Public Space Research Group at the City University of New York. Low also served as a Conservation Guest Scholar at the Getty Conservation Institute.

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Place attachment: A conceptual inquiry. (1992) (1067)
Behind the Gates: Life, Security, and the Pursuit of Happiness in Fortress America (2003) (646)
The anthropology of space and place : locating culture (2003) (644)
The Edge and the Center: Gated Communities and the Discourse of Urban Fear (2001) (494)
The Built Environment and Spatial Form (1990) (451)
On the Plaza: The Politics of Public Space and Culture (2000) (449)
The Politics of Public Space (2005) (299)
spatializing culture: the social production and social construction of public space in Costa Rica (1996) (271)
Rethinking Urban Parks: Public Space and Cultural Diversity (2006) (255)
THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF CITIES: Imagining and Theorizing the City (1996) (225)
Symbolic Ties That Bind (1992) (203)
Engaged Anthropology: Diversity and Dilemmas (2010) (181)
Culturally interpreted symptoms or culture-bound syndromes: a cross-cultural review of nerves. (1985) (151)
Theorizing the City: The New Urban Anthropology Reader (1999) (133)
Spatializing Culture: The Ethnography of Space and Place (2016) (123)
Embodied Space(s) (2003) (119)
Introduction: The Imperative of Public Space (2013) (112)
Towards an anthropological theory of space and place (2009) (111)
Interaction of nutritional and socioeconomic status as determinants of cognitive development in disadvantaged urban Guatemalan children. (1987) (105)
Claiming space for an engaged anthropology: spatial inequality and social exclusion. (2011) (94)
The meaning of nervios: A sociocultural analysis of symptom presentation in San Jose, Costa Rica (1981) (86)
The Erosion of Public Space and the Public Realm: paranoia, surveillance and privatization in New York City (2006) (78)
Urban Fear: Building the Fortress City (1997) (71)
Public Space and Diversity: Distributive, Procedural and Interactional Justice for Parks (2013) (69)
Anthropological Theories of Body, Space, and Culture (2011) (63)
MAINTAINING WHITENESS: THE FEAR OF OTHERS AND NICENESS (2009) (63)
Gender, health, and illness. The case of nerves. (2014) (61)
Rapid ethnographic assessment in urban parks: a case study of Independence National Historical Park. (2002) (61)
Towards a theory of urban fragmentation: A cross-cultural analysis of fear, privatization, and the state (2006) (57)
A sociospatial framework for the anthropology of security (2017) (57)
Indigenous Architecture and the Spanish American Plaza in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean (2009) (57)
Propositions for more just urban public spaces (2016) (52)
Rethinking urban parks (2005) (50)
Housing, Culture, and Design: A Comparative Perspective (1985) (50)
11. House, Home, and Identity in Contemporary American Culture (1989) (43)
The memorialization of September 11: Dominant and local discourses on the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site (2004) (43)
Shoestring Democracy: Gated Condominiums and Market-Rate Cooperatives in New York (2012) (41)
Thoughts about Public Space During Covid‐19 Pandemic (2020) (38)
Fortification of Residential Neighbourhoods and the New Emotions of Home (2008) (37)
Urban Public Spaces as Representations of Culture (1997) (35)
Spatializing Culture: An Engaged Anthropological Approach to Space and Place (2014) (2014) (30)
Incorporation and Gated Communities in the Greater Metro-Los Angeles Region as a Model of Privatization of Residential Communities (2008) (29)
Is Gating Always Exclusionary? A Comparative Analysis of Gated Communities in American and Chinese Cities (2008) (27)
Gender, emotion, and nervios in urban Guatemala (1989) (26)
Child Care Arrangements of Working Mothers in the United States. (1968) (25)
Battery Park City (2005) (23)
The cultural basis of health, illness and disease. (1984) (23)
Children of the Urban Poor (1994) (22)
Growth status of disadvantaged urban Guatemalan children of a resettled community. (1985) (18)
Social science methods in landscape architecture design (1981) (17)
Public Space and the Public Sphere: The Legacy of Neil Smith (2017) (17)
Introduction to "Remapping the City: Place, Order, and Ideology" (2001) (16)
Health, culture and the nature of nerves: a critique. (1989) (16)
Engaged anthropology: diversity and dilemmas. An introduction (2010) (15)
Part III: Nervios in rural Costa Rica (1980) (14)
The gated community as heterotopia (2008) (14)
Lessons from Imagining the World Trade Center Site: An Examination of Public Space and Culture (2002) (12)
Searching for Community (2004) (11)
Biomedical anthropology: An emerging synthesis in anthropology (1984) (11)
Developments in Research Design, Data Collection, and Analysis (1987) (11)
Behind the gates: Social splitting and the “other” (2009) (11)
the medicalization of healing cults in Latin America (1988) (11)
Housing, Organization, and Social Change: A Comparison of Programs for Urban Reconstruction in Guatemala (1988) (10)
Problems, publicity and public space: A resurgent debate (2017) (10)
6. Translating Anthropological Concepts into Architectural Practice (1989) (10)
Spatialities: The Rebirth of Urban Anthropology through Studies of Urban Space (2014) (9)
Security at home: How private securitization practices increase state and capitalist control (2017) (9)
The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City (2018) (8)
Cultura in the modern city: the microgeographies of gender, class, and generation in the costa rican plaza (2000) (8)
14. Domestic Privacy: Gender, Culture, and Development Issues (1989) (8)
The effect of medical institutions on doctor-patient interaction in Costa Rica. (1982) (8)
Medical Practice in Response to a Folk Illness: The Diagnosis and Treatment of Nervios in Costa Rica (1988) (8)
Behind the Gates (2021) (7)
Theorizing the City (1997) (7)
Dr. Moreno Cañas: a symbolic bridge to the demedicalization of healing. (1982) (7)
12. Getting Respect in the Kandyan Highlands: The House, the Community, and the Self in a Third World Society (1989) (7)
Values in planning (1984) (7)
Domesticating Security (2019) (6)
A multi-disciplinary framework for the study of private housing schemes: integrating anthropological, psychological and political levels of theory and analysis (2012) (6)
Homing the City (2016) (6)
15. Dual Aspects of Tradition in Saudi Arabian Urban Housing Development (1989) (6)
17. Vernacular Architecture as an Expression of Its Social Context in Eressos, Greece (1989) (6)
A Response to Castells (1996) (5)
10. Residents' and Outsiders' Perceptions of the Environment (1989) (5)
Spatializing Culture: Embodied Space in the City (2012) (5)
Commentary Social theory and archaeological ethnographies (2002) (5)
Culture, politics, and medicine in Costa Rica : an anthropological study of medical change (1988) (5)
2. Politics, Culture, and the Built Form: User Reaction to the Privatization of State Housing in South Africa (1989) (4)
Public space during COVID‐19 (2020) (4)
7. "Cultural Space" as a Needed Research Concept in the Study of Housing Change: The White Pueblos of Andalusia (1989) (4)
The Secret, the Unspeakable, the Unsaid spatial, discourse, and political economic analysis (2001) (4)
The Erosion of Public Space and the Public Realm (2012) (4)
1. Housing and the Material Basis of Social Reproduction: Political Conflict and the Quality of Life in New York City (1989) (3)
Urban Fear of Crime and Violence in Gated Communities (2007) (3)
The Imperative of Public Space (2021) (3)
9. Behavior in the House: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Using Behavior-Setting Methodology (1989) (3)
Shoestring Democracy: Gated Condominiums and Market Rate Co-operatives in New York [pre-print] (2012) (3)
Society for Latin American Anthropology (1987) (3)
3. Housing and Culture for Native Groups in Canada (1989) (3)
Introduction: Understanding Therapeutic Landscapes from the Perspectives of Medical Anthropology and Environmental Psychology (2017) (3)
The Role of the Physical and Social Environment in Observed and Self-Reported Park Use in Low-Income Neighborhoods in New York City (2021) (3)
Introduction: Exploring Spaces of Security (2019) (2)
4. Culture, Policy, and Production: Making Low-Cost Housing in Sri Lanka (1989) (2)
Concepts of health and disease: Interdisciplinary perspectives (1984) (2)
The resurgence of public space: from the Charter of Athens to the New Urban Agenda (2018) (2)
Engaged Anthropology in the United States and its Relevance for World Anthropologies (2011) (2)
Public space reasserts its political role (2014) (2)
8. The Architecture of Nomadism: Gabra Placemaking and Culture (1989) (2)
Health Planning and Policy (1977) (2)
The Anthropology of Landscape Architecture (1982) (2)
Psychological Maps of Paris (1970) (2014) (2)
The Urban Patient: Health-Seeking Behavior in the Health Care System of San José, Costa Rica (2016) (2)
Ethnic Conflict and the Right to Return of Limbo Diasporas : Multifaceted Reflections on the Case of BiH (2007) (2)
18. Cultural Implications of Housing Design Policy in India (1989) (2)
Public Space as Art and Commodity (1997) (1)
Fear of Others (2004) (1)
16. Contextual Transformations of Traditional Housing in Kabul, Afghanistan (1989) (1)
5. Gentrification: The Redefinition of Urban Neighborhood (1989) (1)
An Ecological Approach to the Study of the Environments of the Urban Poor (2019) (1)
: Simple Arithmetic about Complex Children: A Study of Temporary Shelter for Dependent and Neglected Children in New York City (1953) (1)
Dwellings, Settlements and Tradition: Cross‐Cultural Perspectives. JEAN‐PAUL BOURDIER and NEZAR ALSAYYAD (1993) (1)
Supporting World Anthropologies: A Report on 2008 Initiatives and Dialogue (2009) (1)
Protest of the Body (1994) (1)
Cultural Aspects of Place Attachment (1992) (1)
Unlocking the Gated Community (2004) (1)
Part 4: Family context and illness behavior in Costa Rica (1982) (1)
Anthropology on the World Stage in China (2009) (0)
A multi-disciplinary framework for the study of private housing schemes: integrating anthropological, psychological and political levels of theory and analysis (2010) (0)
SUNTA's Senior Scholar/Lifetime Award: Reflections on My Career and Urban Anthropology (2017) (0)
Exploring Spaces of Security (2018) (0)
Spring Governance Update: The Exceptional and Mundane (2008) (0)
Professional Culture: The Boundary Between Theory and Practice in Design. Revised Draft. (1982) (0)
Power and Illness: The Political Sociology of Health and Medical Care. Elliot A. Krause. (1982) (0)
CHILD CARE ARRANGEMENTS OF THE NATION'S WORKING MOTHERS, 1965, A PRELIMINARY REPORT. (1965) (0)
The Domestic Economy of Malnutrition (2019) (0)
Conversations on World Anthropologies: Chilean Perspectives (2009) (0)
Fear of Crime (2004) (0)
Niceness and Property Values (2004) (0)
Anthropology and Its Publics: The Role of the AAA (2009) (0)
Social justice as a framework for evaluating public space (2020) (0)
An Organizational Culture of Transparency (2008) (0)
America Under COVID-19: (2021) (0)
Arriving at the Gates (2004) (0)
The Socioeconomic Context of Physical Growth in El Progreso (2019) (0)
Strengthening Our Association: A Year in Review (2009) (0)
Puerto Rican Houses in Sociohistorical Perspective. CAROL F. JOPLING (1990) (0)
Conservation and the People’s Views (2018) (0)
The East and the West (0)
America Under COVID-19: The Plight of the Old (2021) (0)
A Farewell Message (2009) (0)
Thoughts on Public Space and Flourishing during COVID-19 (2020) (0)
COMMITTEE ON WORLD ANTHROPOLOGIES (CWA) (2012) (0)
Theorizing the City (1997) (0)
The Sociocultural, Political, and Economic Context of Malnutrition and Child Development in Guatemala (2019) (0)
THE CHAUNCEY FAMILY PAPERS (2016) (0)
Freedom and Control in Modren Society. Morroe Berger , Thoedore Abel , Charles H. Page (1955) (0)
Strategies for Change (2019) (0)
Physical Growth and Nutritional Status of the Children of El Progreso (2019) (0)
The Gendered City: An Introduction (1998) (0)
The Ecology of Mental Development and School Performance (2019) (0)
Re-creating the Past (2004) (0)
NEW FRONTIERS FOR THE BODY SALON- PREREGISTRITON REQUIRED (2012) (0)
19. Progressive Development and Cultural Factors in Low-Cost Housing in Bogotá, Colombia (1989) (0)
Reviews: The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space, the Oxford Handbook of International Business (2002) (0)
Looking Ahead to San Francisco (2008) (0)
Culture, Politics and the Plaza: An Ethnographic Approach to the Study of Urban Public Spaces in Latin America (2019) (0)
An Urban Ethnography of El Progreso (2019) (0)
Democracy in Practice: The Executive Board in Action (2008) (0)
Further recommended reading lists – also see www.peopleplacespace.org (2014) (0)
WORLD COUNCIL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATIONS (WCAA) MEETING (2012) (0)
Editors’ Introduction and Suggestions for Further Reading (2014) (0)
Pursuing an International Initiative: Report from the World Council of Anthropological Associations (2008) (0)
1. A Nation of Gated Communities (2019) (0)
CUAA: We Have Always Been Critical Engaged Urbanists (2022) (0)
AMERICAN (ANTHROPOLOGICAL) IMPERIALISM? AN OVERDUE DIALOGUE (2012) (0)
The Neglected Child and the Social Services. D. V. Donnison (1955) (0)
Patterns of Socioeconomic Variability and Home Stimulation (2019) (0)
Acknowledging the Anthony Leeds Prize in Urban Anthropology, 2001 (2002) (0)
Letter from Seth Low (0)
Commentary (2002) (0)
Private Governance, Taxes, and Moral Minimalism (2004) (0)
Angst voor criminaliteit en gated communities (2012) (0)
Specialists' Reports: Health Planning and Policy (1978) (0)
Democracy Now: Procedural and Distributive Justice (2008) (0)
Inclusion and Dialogue: An Annual Report Summary (2010) (0)
Long Range Planning Committee Met in San Jos (2007) (0)

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