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The spaces of the modern city : imaginaries, politics, and everyday life / edited by Gyan Prakash and Kevin M. Kruse.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.Description: x, 457 p. : 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780691133393
  • 0691133395
  • 9780691133430 (pbk.)
  • 0691133433
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.76 PRA
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Contents:
Introduction -- Spatial imaginaries; 1. Streets, imaginaries, and modernity: Vienna is not Berlin; 2. The global spaces of Los Angeles, 1920s-1930s ; 3. Architecture at the ends of empire: urban reflections between Algiers and Marseille / Sheila Crane; 4. The city in fragments: kaleidoscopic Johannesburg after apartheid / Martin J. Murray ; Spatial politics / 5. Violence and spatial politics between the local and imperial: Baghdad 1778-1810 / Dina Rizk Khoury ; 6. From the lettered city to the sellers' city: vendor politics and public space in urban Mexico, 1880-1926 / Christina M. Jiménez; 7. The city as theater of protest: West Berlin and West Germany, 1962-83 / Belinda Davis; 8. Nuestro pueblo: the spatial and cultural politics of Los Angeles' Watts Towers / Sarah Schrank; Spaces of everyday life ; 9. Morality, majesty, and murder in 1950s London: metropolitan culture and English modernity / Frank Mort; 10. (Re)Imagining an African city: performing culture, arts, and citizenship in Dakar (Senegal), 1980-2000 / Mamadou Diouf ; 11. Street observation science and the Tokyo economic bubble, 1986-1990 / Jordan Sand ; 12. Spectacle and death in the city of Bombay cinema / Ranjani Mazumdar.
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Introduction -- Spatial imaginaries;
1. Streets, imaginaries, and modernity: Vienna is not Berlin;
2. The global spaces of Los Angeles, 1920s-1930s ;
3. Architecture at the ends of empire: urban reflections between Algiers and Marseille / Sheila Crane;
4. The city in fragments: kaleidoscopic Johannesburg after apartheid / Martin J. Murray ;
Spatial politics /
5. Violence and spatial politics between the local and imperial: Baghdad 1778-1810 / Dina Rizk Khoury ;
6. From the lettered city to the sellers' city: vendor politics and public space in urban Mexico, 1880-1926 / Christina M. Jiménez;
7. The city as theater of protest: West Berlin and West Germany, 1962-83 / Belinda Davis;
8. Nuestro pueblo: the spatial and cultural politics of Los Angeles' Watts Towers / Sarah Schrank;
Spaces of everyday life ;
9. Morality, majesty, and murder in 1950s London: metropolitan culture and English modernity / Frank Mort;
10. (Re)Imagining an African city: performing culture, arts, and citizenship in Dakar (Senegal), 1980-2000 / Mamadou Diouf ;
11. Street observation science and the Tokyo economic bubble, 1986-1990 / Jordan Sand ;
12. Spectacle and death in the city of Bombay cinema / Ranjani Mazumdar.