Urban imaginaries : locating the modern city / Alev Çinar and Thomas Bender, editors.

Other author Cinar, Alev.
Other author Bender, Thomas, 1944-
Format Book
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
Descriptionxxvi, 290 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Cities and towns.
Cities and towns--Cross-cultural studies.
Sociology, Urban.
Social history--1970-.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2006035354
ISBN9780816648016 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN0816648018 (hc : alk. paper)
ISBN9780816648023 (pb : alk. paper)
ISBN0816648026 (pb : alk. paper)

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