| Description |
x, 457 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| 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 / Sarah Schrank -- Spaces of everyday life -- 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 -- Street observation science and the Tokyo economic bubble, 1986-1990 / Jordan Sand -- Spectacle and death in the city of Bombay cinema / Ranjani Mazumdar -- Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Cities and towns -- Case studies.
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Sociology, Urban -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Author |
Prakash, Gyan, 1952-
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Kruse, Kevin Michael, 1972-
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| LC no. |
2007021223 |
| ISBN |
9780691133393 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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9780691133430 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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