The spaces of the modern city
Subtitle: imaginaries, politics, and everyday life
By: edited by Gyan Prakash and Kevin Kruse.
Contributors: Prakash, Gyan, 1952-; Kruse, Kevin Michael, 1972-
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691133393; 9780691133430
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Case studies; Sociology, Urban -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Spatial imaginaries; title: Streets, imaginaries and modernity: Vienna is not Berlin / David Frisby; title: The global spaces of Los Angeles, 1920s-1930s / Philip J. Ethington; title: Architecture at the ends of empire: urban reflections between Algiers and Marseilles / Sheila Crane; title: The city in fragments: kaleidoscopic Johannesburg after apartheid / Martin Murray; title: Spatial politics; title: Violence and spatial politics between the local and imperial: Baghdad 1778-1802 / Dina Rizk Khoury; title: From the lettered city to the sellers' city: vendor politics and public space in urban Mexico, 1880-1926 / Christina M. Jiménez; title: The city as theater of protest: West Berlin and West Germany, 1962-83 / Belinda Davis; title: Nuestro pueblo: the spatial and cultural politics of Los Angeles' Watts Towers; title: Spaces of everyday life / Sarah Schrank; title: Morality, majesty, and murder in 1950s London: metropolitan culture and English modernity / Frank Mort; title: (Re)Imagining an African city: performing culture, arts and citizenship in Dakar (Senegal) 1980-2000 / Mamadou Diouf; title: A utopia of fragments: street observation science and the Tokyo economic bubble, 1986-1990 / Jordan Sand; title: Spectacle and death in the city of Bombay cinema / Ranjani Mazumdar; title: Index; title: Illustrations.