ANDERSON, Elijah <br/><br/>
The cosmopolitan canopy 

 - Thousand Oaks  :  SAGE,  September 2004 
<br/><br/> The public spaces of the city are more racially, ethnically, and social diverse than ever. Social distance and tensin as expressed by wariness of strangers appear to be order of the day. But the "cosmopolitan canopy" offers a respite and an opportunity for diverse peoples to come together to do their business and also to engage in "folk ethnography" that serves as a cognitive and cultural base on wich people  construct behavior in public