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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Binnie, Jon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban.

Cosmopolitanism.

City dwellers.

Ethnic relations.

Race relations.

Urban geography.

Cultural pluralism.

Spatial behavior.

Cities and towns--Case studies.

Cities and towns.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xi, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415344913

0415344921

OCLC:

60500760

Publisher Number:

9780415344913 (hardcover : alk. paper)

9780415344920 (softcover : alk. paper)