Cosmopolitan urbanism / edited by Jon Binnie [and others].

Other author Binnie, Jon.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Descriptionxi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

Contents Introduction : grounding cosmopolitan urbanism : approaches, practices and policies / Jon Binnie, Julian Holloway, Steve Millington and Craig Young -- Cosmopolitan urbanism : a love song to our mongrel cities / Leonie Sandercock -- The paradox of cosmopolitan urbanism : rationality, difference and the circuits of cultural capital / Gary Bridge -- Strangers in the cosmopolis / Kurt Iveson -- Sociality and the cosmopolitan imagination : national, cosmopolitan and local imaginaries in Auckland, New Zealand / Alan Latham -- Cosmopolitanism by default : public sociability in Montréal / Annick Germain and Martha Radice -- Cosmopolitan camouflage : (post- )gay in Spitalfields, East London / Gavin Brown -- Negotiating cosmopolitanism in Singapore's fictional landscape / Serene Tan and Brenda S.A. Yeoh -- Multicultural urban space and the cosmopolitan 'other' : the contested revitalization of Amsterdam's Bijlmermeer / Annemarie Bodaar -- Working-class subjects in the cosmopolitan city / Chris Haylett -- Planning Birmingham as a cosmopolitan city : recovering the depths of its diversity? / Wun Fung Chan -- Cosmopolitan knowledge and the production and consumption of sexualized space : Manchester's Gay Village / Jon Binnie and Beverley Skeggs -- Conclusion : the paradoxes of cosmopolitan urbanism / Jon Binnie, Julian Holloway, Steve Millington and Craig Young.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2005013886
ISBN0415344913 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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ISBN0415344921 (softcover : alk. paper)
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