History repeats itself, but how? City character, urban tradition, and the accomplishment of place

摘要: This study shows how places, and by implication other societal units as well, achieve reproduce distinctiveness. It does this specifying actors in two California urban areas, over approximately 100 years, responded differently to the same exogenous forces. Each place is examined determine unlike elements conjoin produce a particular character at any given moment travels through time constitute local tradition. Borrowing from advances analyses of structure agency, displays tradition accomplished interaction helps make an elusive process empirically evident accessible for