Terry N. Clark

About

Professor Terry N. Clark is a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. He holds a B.A. from Bowdoin College (1962), an M.A. from Columbia University (1965), and a Ph.D. from Columbia University (1967). His research interests include using decision-making theory to approach urban politics and other social phenomena, sociology of culture, transnational processes, urban sociology, and social theory. Clark is the international Coordinator of the Fiscal Austerity and Urban Innovation Project, which surveys city officials across the United States and in thirty-five other countries. His work focuses on understanding social phenomena through decision-making frameworks and exploring the dynamics of urban politics and culture.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Computer Science
• Social Science
• Geography
• Political Science
• Economic geography
• Epistemology
• Philosophy
• Pedagogy
• Art

Selected publications

• Current debates in urban theory from a scale perspective: Introducing a scenes approach

  Urban Studies · 2018-07-05 · 17 citations

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  Cities, all over the world, have become more diverse than ever. This poses great challenges to urban studies and theorising. In this article, we review current debates in urban theory through Howitt’s (1998) three-facet conceptualisation of geographical scale and find that urban theorists have high levels of disagreement on the areal (scale as size), the hierarchical (scale as level) as well as the dialectical (scale as relation) aspects of the city. We show that, if urban theorists are to find…

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• Bohemian Cultural Scenes and Creative Development of Chinese Cities: An Analysis of 65 Cities Using Cultural Amenity Data

  Sustainability · 2021 · 7 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  There has been a cultural turn in urban development, as an increasing number of scholars are stressing the importance of culture in urban research and policy agendas. Specifically, the bohemian cultural scene could drive an integral cultural policy approach between the cultural scenes city and the creative city approach. Based on amenities data from 65 major Chinese cities, this paper investigates the relationship between bohemian cultural scenes and creative development of Chinese cities as wel…

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• The arts, Bohemian scenes, and income

  Cultural Trends · 2019-10-20 · 7 citations

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  Where and how does arts activity drive neighbourhood revitalization? We explore the impact of arts establishments on income in US zip codes, nationally and across quantiles (from four to seven subgroups) of zip codes stratified by disadvantage (based on income and ethnicity/race). We focus on what is new here: how neighbourhood scenes or the mixes of amenities mediate relationships between the arts and income. One dramatic finding is that more bohemian/hip neighbourhoods tend to have less income…

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• Urbanization Theorizing

  Handbooks of sociology and social research · 2021 · 5 citations

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• Consumer Cities, Scenes, and Ethnic Restaurants

  2019-02-11 · 2 citations

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  This chapter builds on past work to examine the distinctive ways in which ethnic restaurants help to define the contemporary scenescape in US cities. It uses the example of restaurants to illustrate how to apply and extend a scenes approach. Restaurants in general and ethnically themed restaurants are crucial components of many cities and communities’ consumer offerings. They often make the scene. After briefly reviewing some general principles of the scenes perspective, the authors discuss ethn…

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Frequent coauthors

• Brian Azcona

  36 shared

• Pam Jenkins

  University of New Orleans

  36 shared

• Traber Davis

  Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center

  36 shared

• David M. Burley

  Southeastern Louisiana University

  36 shared

• Lorna Ferguson

  19 shared

• Daniel Aaron Silver

  University of Toronto

  18 shared

• Daniel Silver

  University of Toronto

  16 shared

• Filipe Carreira da Silva

  University of Cambridge

  15 shared

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