Setha Low
#11,466
Most Influential Person Now
American anthropologist
Setha Low's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings
Download Badge
Anthropology
Setha Low's Degrees
- PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Similar Degrees You Can Earn
Why Is Setha Low Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)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.
Setha Low's Published Works
Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works
Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author
Published Works
- 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)
This paper list is powered by the following services:
Other Resources About Setha Low
What Schools Are Affiliated With Setha Low?
Setha Low is affiliated with the following schools:
