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    'City of the Future' : Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana (2016)
    New York, NY : [s.n.]
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    ISBN: 9781785332579
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 220 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Integration and Conflict Studies 14
    Keywords: Urban Studies
    Abstract: Astana, the capital city of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan, has often been admired for the design and planning of its futuristic cityscape. This anthropological study of the development of the city focuses on every-day practices, official ideologies and representations alongside the memories and dreams of the city's longstanding residents and recent migrants. Critically examining a range of approaches to place and space in anthropology, geography and other disciplines, the book argues for an understanding of space as inextricably material-and-imaginary, and unceasingly dynamic – allowing for a plurality of incompatible pasts and futures materialized in spatial form.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Maps, Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Introduction: Pathways into the 'City of the Future' -- -- Astana, Kazakhstan and the Global Lives of Modernist Urbanism -- Anthropology's Space -- Space and Time -- Theorizing the City Anthropologically -- Fieldwork in the 'City of the Future' -- -- Chapter 1. Materializing the Future: Images and Practices -- -- Deconstruction, Reconstruction -- The Cityscape of the Future -- Becoming 'Contemporary' -- The Roots of Disenchantment, and Its Limits -- -- Chapter 2. Performing Urbanity: Migrants, the City and Collective Identification -- -- Identities beyond Representation -- Urbanity and Rurality in Kazakhstan -- Migration to Astana -- Migrants' Stories -- -- Kumano: A Pioneer Settles Down -- Kirill and Gisele: Love on the Move -- Bakytgul: Caught Up in Deferrals -- Aynura: The Girl Who Played the Accordion -- Madiyar: The Struggling Southerner -- -- Embodying Identity -- -- Chapter 3. Tselinograd: The Past in the 'City of the Future' -- -- Building Tselinograd -- Nostalgia and Spatial Intimacy -- Walking in Tselinograd -- Tselinograd's Glory -- -- Chapter 4. Celebration and the City: Belonging in Public Space -- -- What Is Public Space? -- The Setting: City Squares -- Public Holiday Celebrations -- -- ...in Late-Soviet Tselinograd -- ...in Astana -- -- Whose Celebration, Whose City? -- Public Space Reopened -- -- Chapter 5. Fixing the Courtyard: Mundane Place-Making -- -- Shifting Frameworks -- Material Place-Making in the Dvor -- Digression: Things Make a Difference -- The KSK Takeover -- -- Chapter 6. Playing with the City: 'Encounter' in Astana -- -- What is 'Encounter'? -- Game Types -- 'Encounter' as Play -- Play or Politics: Carnival, Stiob and 'Encounter' -- 'Encounter's Creativity' -- Creasing Space -- -- Conclusion -- References -- Index --
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    Housing and Belonging in Latin America (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781782387411
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 344 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: CEDLA Latin America Studies 105
    Keywords: Urban Studies
    Abstract: The intricacies of living in contemporary Latin American cities include cases of both empowerment and restriction. In Lima, residents built their own homes and formed community organizations, while in Rio de Janeiro inhabitants of the favelas needed to be "pacified" in anticipation of international sporting events. Aspirations to "get ahead in life" abound in the region, but so do multiple limitations to realizing the dream of upward mobility. This volume captures the paradoxical histories and experiences of urban life in Latin America, offering new empirical and theoretical insights to scholars.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction: Taking up Residency: Spatial Reconfigurations and the Struggle to Belong in Urban Latin America -- Christien Klaufus -- PART I: THE LATIN AMERICAN CONTEXT -- Chapter 1. The Consolidation of the Latin American City and the Changing Bases for Social Order -- Bryan R. Roberts -- Chapter 2. Proximity, Crime, Politics and Design: Medellín's Popular Neighbourhoods and the Experience of Belonging -- Gerard Martin and Marijke Martin -- PART II: FAMILY AND BELONGING IN CONSOLIDATED SETTELEMENTS -- Chapter 3. Debe Ser Esfuerzo Propio: Aspirations and Belongings of the Young Generation in the Old Barriadas of Southern Lima, Peru -- Michaela Hordijk -- Chapter 4. Housing Inheritance and Succession among Pioneer Squatters and Self Builders: A Mexican Case Study -- Erika Denisse Grajeda -- Chapter 5. 'Favela Modelo': A Study on Housing, Belonging and Civic Engagement in a 'Pacified' Favela in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil -- Palloma Menezes -- PART III: SPACES OF THE URBAN MIDDLE CLASS -- Chapter 6. Housing Policy in the City of Buenos Aires: Some Reflections on the Programa Federal -- Fernando Ostuni and Jean-Louis Van Gelder -- Chapter 7. The Boom of High-Rise Apartment Buildings in Buenos Aires: New Spaces of Residentiality or a Motor of Disintegration? -- Jan Dohnke and Corinna Hölzl -- Chapter 8. Living With Style in My Casa GEO: Large-scale Housing Conjuntos in Urban Mexico -- Cristina Inclán-Valadez -- PART IV: ARCHITECTURAL AND SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS -- Chapter 9. Illiterate Modernists: Tracking the Dissemination of Architectural Knowledge in Brazilian Favelas -- Fernando Luiz Lara -- Chapter 10. Towards Belonging: Design and Dwelling Practices in Santa Marta, Colombia -- Peter Kellett -- Chapter 11. (Re)Building the City of Medellín: Beyond State Rhetoric vs. Personal Experience - A Call for Consolidated Synergies -- Jota (José) Samper and Tamera Marko -- PART V: REFLECTIONS -- Chapter 12. Home and Belonging: Reflections From Urban Mexico -- Ann Varley -- Chapter 13. One Block at a Time: Performing the Neighbourhood -- Arij Ouweneel -- List of Contributors -- Index --
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    The Great Reimagining : Public Art, Urban Space, and the Symbolic Landscapes of a 'New' Northern Ireland (2015)
    New York, NY : [s.n.]
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    ISBN: 9781782386223
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 244 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement 4
    Keywords: Urban Studies
    Abstract: While sectarian violence has greatly diminished on the streets of Belfast and Derry, proxy battles over the right to define Northern Ireland's identity through its new symbolic landscapes continue. Offering a detailed ethnographic account of Northern Ireland's post-conflict visual transformation, this book examines the official effort to produce new civic images against a backdrop of ongoing political and social struggle. Interviews with politicians, policymakers, community leaders, cultural workers, and residents shed light on the deeply contested nature of seemingly harmonized urban landscapes in societies undergoing radical structural change. Here, the public art process serves as a vital means to understanding the wider politics of a transforming public sphere in an age of globalization and transnational connectivity.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Landscapes of Change in the Transitional City -- Chapter 1. A Place Apart? Sectarian Geographies, Shared Space and the Material Production of a 'New' Northern Ireland -- Chapter 2. From 'Gunland' to Globalization: The 'Space of Flows' Meets Place in a City 'on the Rise' -- Chapter 3. Neutral Space is Shopping Space. Or is it? The Choreography of Consumption in Belfast City Centre -- Chapter 4. Beautiful Barriers: Contesting the Symbolic Reimaging of Community along a Belfast Peace Line -- Chapter 5. Transforming the Stone: Recasting Derry's Diamond War Memorial for the Demands of a Shared Future -- Chapter 6. Art on the Frontlines: Civilising Derry's Ebrington Military Barracks for a 'City of Culture' -- Conclusion: The City as Civic Identikit? Twenty-first Century Public(s) on the Transnational Urban Stage Set -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    Faithfully Urban : Pious Muslims in a German City (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781782386575
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 296 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Urban Studies
    Abstract: In the southern German city of Stuttgart lives a pious Muslim population that has merged with the local population to create a meaningful shared existence. In this ethnographic account, the author introduces and examines the lives of ordinary residents, neighborhoods, and mosque communities to analyze moments and spaces where Muslims and non-Muslims engage with each other and accommodate their respective needs. These accounts show that even in the face of resentment and discrimination, this pious population has indeed become an integral part of the urban community.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Arrival -- Chapter 2. Religiosities -- Chapter 3. Public Lives -- Chapter 4. Resentment -- Chapter 5. Our Mosque -- Chapter 6. In the Neighbourhood -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index --
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    Narrating the City : Histories, Space and the Everyday (2015)
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    ISBN: 9781782387763
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 266 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Space and Place 15
    Keywords: Urban Studies
    Abstract: In recent decades, the insight that narration shapes our perception of reality has inspired and influenced the most innovative historical accounts. Focusing on new research, this volume explores the history of non-elite populations in cities from Caracas to Vienna, and Paris to Belgrade. Narration is central to the theme of each contribution, whether as a means of description, a methodological approach, or basic story telling. This book brings together research that both asks classical socio-historical questions and takes narration seriously, engaging with novels, films, local history accounts, petitions to municipal authorities, and interviews with alternative cinema activists.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Space, Narration, and the Everyday -- Wladimir Fischer-Nebmaier -- PART I: NARRATIVES AND IMAGES OF THE CITY -- Chapter 1. The Case of Ossification: Contemporary Narratives about Everyday Life in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Lviv -- Andriy Zayarnyuk -- Chapter 2. The Masa's Odysseys through Bourgeois Caracas: The Testimony of Novels, 1920s-1970s -- Arturo Almandoz -- Chapter 3. Re-imagining Nieuwland: Narrative Mapping and the Mental Geography of Urban Space in a Dutch Multi-Ethnic Neighborhood -- Leeke Reinders -- PART II: CLAIMING URBAN SPACE -- Chapter 4. City and Cinema as Spaces for (trans-national) Grassroots Mobilization: Perspectives from Southeastern and Central Europe -- Anna Schober -- Chapter 5. Adjudicating Lodging: Denazification, Housing Requisition, and Identity in "Red Vienna," 1945-1948 -- Matthew P. Berg -- PART III: LIVING AND WORKING IN THE CITY -- Chapter 6. Urban Information Flows: Workers' and Employers' Knowledge of the Asbestos Hazard in Clydeside, ca. 1950-1970s -- Ronnie Johnston and Arthur McIvor -- Chapter 7. Creating a Familiar Space: Childcare, Kinship, and Community in Post-Socialist New Zagreb -- Tihana Rubić and Carolin Leutloff-Grandits -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --
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    Bloom and Bust : Urban Landscapes in the East since German Reunification (2014)
    New York, NY : [s.n.]
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    ISBN: 9781782384915
    Language: Undetermined
    Pages: 276 p.
    Edition: 1st edition
    Series Statement: Space and Place 13
    Keywords: Urban Studies
    Abstract: More than two decades of deconstruction, renovation, and reconstruction have left the urban environments in the former German Democratic Republic completely transformed. This volume considers the changing urban landscapes in the former East - and how the filling of previous absences and the absence of previous presence - creates the cultural landscape of modern unified Germany. This broadens our understanding of this transformation by examining often-neglected cities, spaces, or structures, and historical narration and preservation.  
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Gwyneth Cliver and Carrie Smith-Prei -- PART I: GROUNDWORK -- Chapter 1. Preserving the Past Before and After the Wende: A Case Study of Quedlinburg -- Heike Alberts -- Chapter 2. No Man's Land: Fiction and Reality in Buddy Giovinazzo's Potsdamer Platz -- Christopher Jones -- PART II: PROJECTIONS -- Chapter 3. Cinematic Reflections of Germany's Postunification Woes: Architecture and Urban Space of Frankfurt (Oder) in Halbe Treppe, Lichter, and Kombat Sechzehn -- Sebastian Heiduschke -- Chapter 4. Reclaiming the Thuringian Tuscany: The Touristic Appeal of Bad Sulza and its Toskana Therme -- Erika Nelson -- Chapter 5. Berlin through the Lens: Space and (National) Identity in the Postunification Capital -- Susanna Miller, Jennifer Ruth Hosek, Tamara Nadolny, Heidi Manicke, Flavia Zaka, Trevor Blakeney, and Jude Hirman -- Chapter 6. The Amputated City: The Voids of Hoyerswerda -- Gwyneth Cliver -- PART III: THEORIES -- Chapter 7. Sounding out Erfurt: Does the Song Remain the Same? -- Heiner Stahl -- Chapter 8. Restoration and Redemption: Defending Kultur and Heimat in Eisenach's Cityscape -- Jason James -- Chapter 9. The Bauwerk in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility: Historical Reconstruction, Pious Modernism, and Dresden's "süße Krankheit" -- Rob McFarland with Elizabeth Guthrie -- Afterword -- Rolf J. Goebel -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --
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