ISBN:
9780691133430
,
9780691133393
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 457 S.
,
Ill., Kt.
Keywords:
Cities and towns Case studies
;
Sociology, Urban Case studies
;
Cities and towns Case studies
;
Sociology, Urban Case studies
;
Stadtsoziologie
;
Geschichte 1778-2007
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Fallstudiensammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Fallstudiensammlung
;
Stadtsoziologie
;
Geschichte 1778-2007
;
Stadtbild
;
Geschichte 1778-2007
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- Spatial imaginaries -- Streets, imaginaries and modernity: Vienna is not Berlin / David Frisby -- The global spaces of Los Angeles, 1920s-1930s / Philip J. Ethington -- Architecture at the ends of empire: urban reflections between Algiers and Marseilles / Sheila Crane -- The city in fragments: kaleidoscopic Johannesburg after apartheid / Martin Murray -- Spatial politics -- Violence and spatial politics between the local and imperial: Baghdad 1778-1802 / Dina Rizk Khoury -- From the lettered city to the sellers' city: vendor politics and public space in urban Mexico, 1880-1926 / Christina M. Jiménez -- The city as theater of protest: West Berlin and West Germany, 1962-83 / Belinda Davis -- Nuestro pueblo: the spatial and cultural politics of Los Angeles' Watts Towers -- Spaces of everyday life / Sarah Schrank -- Morality, majesty, and murder in 1950s London: metropolitan culture and English modernity / Frank Mort -- (Re)Imagining an African city: performing culture, arts and citizenship in Dakar (Senegal) 1980-2000 / Mamadou Diouf -- A utopia of fragments: street observation science and the Tokyo economic bubble, 1986-1990 / Jordan Sand -- Spectacle and death in the city of Bombay cinema / Ranjani Mazumdar -- Index -- Illustrations
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0718/2007021223.html
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0718/2007021223.html
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