Urban imaginaries : locating the modern city /
"For millennia, the city stood out against the landscape, walled and compact. This concept of the city was long accepted as adequate for characterizing the urban experience. However, the nature of the city, both real and imagined, has always been more permeable than this model reveals. The essa...
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2007
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The city : experience, imagination, and place / Alev Çinar and Thomas Bender
- Boundaries, networks, and cities : playing and replaying diasporas and histories / Anthony D. King
- Economy and gender in the urban borderland : the public culture of Laleli, Istanbul / Deniz Yükseker
- Borderlined in the global city (of angels) / Camilla Fojas
- Modernity on the waterfront : the case of Haussmann's Paris / Margaret Cohen
- Assembling Douala : imagining forms of urban sociality / AbdouMaliq Simone
- Cities without maps : favelas and the aesthetics of realism / Beatriz Jaguaribe
- Fateful triangles : modernity and its antinomies in a Mediterranean port city / Mark LeVine
- The imagined community as urban reality : the making of Ankara / Alev Çinar
- Urban space, national time, and postcolonial difference : the steel towns of India / Srirupa Roy
- "Amman is not a city" : Middle Eastern cities in question / Seteney Shami
- Let the dead be dead : communal imaginaries and national narratives in the post-civil war reconstruction of Beirut / Maha Yahya
- Conclusion: Reflections on the culture of urban modernity / Thomas Bender.
