The Public City By:"Philip J. Ethington" Published on 2001-07-06 by Univ of California Press Philip J. Ethington challenges the assumptions of several decades of urban history that treat American urban politics as the expression of social-group community experience. Instead, he maintains in The Public City, social-group identities of race, class, ethnicity, and gender were politically constructed in the public sphere in the process of political mobilization and journalistic discourse. This Book was ranked 35 by Google Books for keyword public.