Urban imaginaries
Subtitle: locating the modern city
By: Alev Çinar and Thomas Bender, editors
Contributors: Cinar, Alev; Bender, Thomas
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780816648016; 9780816648023
Subjects: Cities and towns; Cities and towns -- Cross-cultural studies; Sociology, Urban; Social history -- 1970-
Genres: Cross-cultural studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The city : experience, imagination, and place / Alev Çinar and Thomas Bender; title: Boundaries, networks, and cities : playing and replaying diasporas and histories / Anthony D. King; title: Economy and gender in the urban borderland : the public culture of Laleli, Istanbul / Deniz Yükseker; title: Borderlined in the global city (of angels) / Camilla Fojas; title: Modernity on the waterfront : the case of Haussmann's Paris / Margaret Cohen; title: Assembling Douala : imagining forms of urban sociality / AbdouMaliq Simone; title: Cities without maps : favelas and the aesthetics of realism / Beatriz Jaguaribe; title: Fateful triangles : modernity and its antinomies in a Mediterranean port city / Mark LeVine; title: The imagined community as urban reality : the making of Ankara / Alev Çinar; title: Urban space, national time, and postcolonial difference : the steel towns of India / Srirupa Roy; title: "Amman is not a city" : Middle Eastern cities in question / Seteney Shami; title: Let the dead be dead : communal imaginaries and national narratives in the post-civil war reconstruction of Beirut / Maha Yahya; title: Conclusion: Reflections on the culture of urban modernity / Thomas Bender