Other citites, other worlds : Urban imaginaries in a globalizing age

By:

Huyssen Andreas

Contributor(s):

Publication details: London Duke University Press 2008Description: 327p viiISBN:

9780822342717

Subject(s):

1. Cities & Towns - Urbanization - Developing Countries2. Urban Geography - Developing Countries3. Globalization - Social Aspects - Developing Countries

DDC classification:

307.76 HUY

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; Acknowledgments Introduction: World Cultures, World Cities Andreas Huyssen; Latin America ; Cultural Landscapes: Buenos Aires from Integration to Fracture ; Beatriz Sarlo ; From Modernism to Neoliberalism in São Paulo: Reconfiguring the City and Its Citizens ; Teresa P. R. Caldeira ; Mexico City, 2010: Improvising Globalization Néstor García Canclini ; Africa The Last Shall Be First: African Urbanities and the Larger Urban World AbdouMaliq Simone; Unsettling Johannesburg: The Country in the City Hilton Judin; Mega-exhibitions: The Antinomies of a Transnational Global Form Okwui Enwezor ; Asia Mumbai: The Modern City in Ruins Gyan Prakash ; Negotiating the Static and Kinetic Cities: The Emergent Urbanism of Mumbai Rahul Mehrotra; Remapping Beijing: Polylocality, Globalization, Cinema Yingjin Zhang; Faking Globalization Ackbar Abbas ; Middle East Two Dreams in a Global City: Class and Space in Urban Egypt Farha Ghannam; Hüzün–Melancholy–Tristesse of Istanbul Orhan Pamuk ; Bibliography ; Index.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS;
Acknowledgments
Introduction: World Cultures, World Cities
Andreas Huyssen;
Latin America ;
Cultural Landscapes: Buenos Aires from Integration to Fracture ;
Beatriz Sarlo ;
From Modernism to Neoliberalism in São Paulo: Reconfiguring the City and Its Citizens ;
Teresa P. R. Caldeira ;
Mexico City, 2010: Improvising Globalization
Néstor García Canclini ;
Africa
The Last Shall Be First: African Urbanities and the Larger Urban World
AbdouMaliq Simone;
Unsettling Johannesburg: The Country in the City
Hilton Judin;
Mega-exhibitions: The Antinomies of a Transnational Global Form
Okwui Enwezor ;
Asia
Mumbai: The Modern City in Ruins
Gyan Prakash ;
Negotiating the Static and Kinetic Cities: The Emergent Urbanism of Mumbai
Rahul Mehrotra;
Remapping Beijing: Polylocality, Globalization, Cinema
Yingjin Zhang;
Faking Globalization
Ackbar Abbas ;
Middle East
Two Dreams in a Global City: Class and Space in Urban Egypt
Farha Ghannam;
Hüzün–Melancholy–Tristesse of Istanbul
Orhan Pamuk ;
Bibliography ;
Index.

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