ISBN:
9780415965262
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 232 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in geography 2
Parallel Title:
Print version Branding Cities : Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism, and Social Change
DDC:
307.76
Keywords:
Cultural pluralism
;
Cosmopolitanism
;
Social change
;
Stadtgeografie
Abstract:
Cultural analysts, social scientists, and media scholars explore the ways in which cities generate competing visions of their use and their future, thereby branding their image for international consumption
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Processes of Cosmopolitanism and Parochialism; 2 Strangers as Neighbors in the Cosmopolis: New Migrants in London, Diversity, and Place; 3 Conflicting Mobilities: Cultural Diversity and City Branding in Berlin; Part I Branding the City: Selling Contradiction for Global Advantage; 4 London's Chinatown: Branded Place or Community Space?; 5 Living and Making the Branded City and Its Contradictions: Skilled EU Migrants in Manchester; 6 Understanding Cultural Quarters in Branded Cities
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II Idea of the City: Cinematic Futures and the Grounds of the Present7 London Undead: Screening/Branding the Empty City; 8 Branding the Modernist Metropolis: The Eternal City and the City of Lights in Cinema after World War II; 9 Nantes's Atlantic Problem; Part III Family Histories: The Remembered City; 10 Stripes and My Country: or, On Not Being at Home; 11 Cosmopolitanism with Roots: The Jewish Presence in Shanghai before the Communist Revolution and as Brand in the New Metropolis; 12 A La Mode: The Cosmopolitan and the Provincial; Part IV Coda
Description / Table of Contents:
13 Cosmopolitanism, Branding, and the Public RealmFilmography; Bibliography; Contributors; Index
Note:
Includes filmography, bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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