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The spaces of the modern city : Imaginaries, politics and everady life
Publication details: Oxford Princeton University Press 2008Description: 457p ixISBN:- 9780691133430
- 307.76 PRA
Contents:
CONTENTS;
Preface;
Introduction: Special Imaginaries;
CHAPTER I Streets, Imaginaries, and Modernity: Vienna is not Berlin;
CHAPTER II The Global Spaces of Los Angeles, 1920-1930’s;
CHAPTER III Architecture at the Ends of Empire: Urban Reflections
between Algiers and Marseille;
CHAPTER IV The City in Fragments: Kaleidoscopic Johannesburg after Apartheid;
SPATIAL POLITICS
CHAPTER V Violence and Spatial Politics between the Local and Imperial:
Baghdad, 1778-1810;
CHAPTER VI From the Lettered City to the Seller’s City: Vendor Politics
and Public Space in Urban Mexico, 1880-1926;
CHAPTER VII The City as a Theatre of Protest: West Berlin and West Germany, 1962-1983;
CHAPTER VIII Nuestro Pueblo: The Spatial and Cultural Politics of Los Angeles’ Watts Towers;
SPACES OF EVERYDAY LIFE
CHAPTER IX Morality, Majesty and Murder in1950’s London: Metropolitan Culture and Modernity;
CHAPTER X Imagining an African City: Performing Culture, Arts, and Citizenship in Dakar 1980-2000;
CHAPTER XI Street Observation Science and the Tokyo Economic Bubble, 1986-1990;
CHAPTER XII Spectacle and Death in the City of Bombay Cinema;
Index.
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CONTENTS;
Preface;
Introduction: Special Imaginaries;
CHAPTER I Streets, Imaginaries, and Modernity: Vienna is not Berlin;
CHAPTER II The Global Spaces of Los Angeles, 1920-1930’s;
CHAPTER III Architecture at the Ends of Empire: Urban Reflections
between Algiers and Marseille;
CHAPTER IV The City in Fragments: Kaleidoscopic Johannesburg after Apartheid;
SPATIAL POLITICS
CHAPTER V Violence and Spatial Politics between the Local and Imperial:
Baghdad, 1778-1810;
CHAPTER VI From the Lettered City to the Seller’s City: Vendor Politics
and Public Space in Urban Mexico, 1880-1926;
CHAPTER VII The City as a Theatre of Protest: West Berlin and West Germany, 1962-1983;
CHAPTER VIII Nuestro Pueblo: The Spatial and Cultural Politics of Los Angeles’ Watts Towers;
SPACES OF EVERYDAY LIFE
CHAPTER IX Morality, Majesty and Murder in1950’s London: Metropolitan Culture and Modernity;
CHAPTER X Imagining an African City: Performing Culture, Arts, and Citizenship in Dakar 1980-2000;
CHAPTER XI Street Observation Science and the Tokyo Economic Bubble, 1986-1990;
CHAPTER XII Spectacle and Death in the City of Bombay Cinema;
Index.
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