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Acknowledgments | |
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Introduction: City Murals | |
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Characters in the Crowds, Offering New York "Like a Native" | |
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The Work of Walking | |
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The Walking Guide, the City, and This Book | |
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The Guiding World | |
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From the Colossus of Rhodes to the Statue of Liberty | |
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The Rise of New York Guiding | |
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"There Are Many Guides, and Only One Test" | |
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Seven Tensions | |
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An Untidy Career | |
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After the Rush | |
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Deciding to "Make a Go of It": Getting into Guiding | |
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Working as a Guide | |
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Harmonizing Work, and Other Rationales | |
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Beyond the Sidewalk | |
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The Guide-Centered Working Ecology | |
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Guiding Relations | |
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Connecting with Other Guides | |
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Wrangling, Promoting, Connecting: Working with Organizations | |
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"... But They Also Use Our Name to Market Themselves" | |
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Shticks of the Trade | |
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"We Change Our Environment" | |
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Routemaking | |
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Eight Storytelling Tricks | |
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"Walking Is about Your Senses... It's about Experiencing" | |
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Entertaining identities | |
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Working with an Audience | |
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Interacting with Common Tourist Types | |
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Negotiating Edutainment | |
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"They Expect You as the Product as Well" | |
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Situational Identities and Symbolic Armor | |
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Re-Keying the City | |
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Neighborhood Narratives and Urban Cultures | |
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"I Don't Own the Neighborhood ..." | |
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A Different Kind of Tourism: "Teaching the Stuff That Tourists Don't Even Know That They Want to Know" | |
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"Learning 'The Connect'": Tours and Street Intellectualism | |
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Urban Alchemists | |
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The Transmutation of the City | |
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"It's a Charming Story, and I Couch It That Way": Shifting the Cultural Ground | |
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"Do You Want to Come In and See My House?" Spontaneity and the City | |
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"I Tell Them How to Dress": Transforming the Visitor into a Local and a Local into a Tourist | |
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Ghosts in the Machine | |
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Quizzes, Tests, and Dissertations Locating Research, Locating Researcher How I Ended Up Giving a Walking Tour The Walking Guide and the Graduate Student | |
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Cast of Characters | |
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Catalogue of Tours Taken | |
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Notes | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |