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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cinar, Alev.

Bender, Thomas.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns.

Cities and towns--Cross-cultural studies.

Sociology, Urban.

Social history--1970-.

Social history.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 290 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2007]

Summary:

For millennia, the city stood out against the landscape, walled and compact. This concept of the city was long accepted as adequate for characterizing the urban experience. However, the nature of the city, both real and imagined, has always been more permeable than this model reveals. The essays in Urban Imaginaries respond to this condition by focusing on how social and physical space is conceived as both indefinite and singular. They emphasize the ways this space is shared and thus made into urban culture. Urban Imaginaries offers case studies on cities in Brazil, Israel, Turkey, Lebanon, and India, as well as in the United States and France, and in doing so blends social, cultural, and political approaches to better understand the contemporary urban experience.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816648016

0816648018

9780816648023

0816648026

OCLC:

74492097