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Urban enigmas : Montreal, Toronto, and the problem of comparing cities / edited by Johanne Sloan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sloan, Johanne, Author.
- Series:
- Culture of citles.
- Culture of cities project series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociology, Urban--Ontario--Toronto.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Sociology, Urban--Quebec (Province)--Montreal.
- Arts and society--Ontario--Toronto.
- Arts and society.
- Arts and society--Quebec (Province)--Montreal.
- Cultural pluralism--Ontario--Toronto.
- Cultural pluralism.
- Cultural pluralism--Quebec (Province)--Montreal.
- Toronto (Ont.)--Social conditions.
- Toronto (Ont.).
- Montréal (Québec).
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic text (xi, 298 p.) : digital file.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Contributors, part of the collaborative research project The Culture of Cities: Montreal, Toronto, Dublin, and Berlin, address theoretical and methodological aspects of comparison, while case-studies examine the mutually constituted identities of Montreal and Toronto through examples of travel writing, public art, film festivals, theatrical performances, diasporic communities, ethnic festivals, and urban media. Comparison is shown to be not only something performed by experts but a deeply embedded, everyday social practice that contributes to the mutable identities of cities. Urban Enigmas demonstrates that the accumulation of urban actions, encounters, experiences, and relationships create distinctive patterns that make it possible to recognize the particularity of cities.
- Contents:
- Comparing cities : on the mutual honouring of peculiarities / Alan Blum
- Comparing the cultures of cities : epistemological perspectives on the concept of metropolis from the cultural sciences / Jean-François Coté
- "To squeeze a single sentence out" : estrangement and disenchantment in Benjamin's "Marseilles" / Kevin Dowler
- The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi : staging polyphony in Montreal and Toronto / Michael Darroch and Jean-François Morissette
- Imagine-nation in the city : seriocomedy and local democracy / Greg M. Nielsen
- Ethnicity, social organization, and urban space : a comparison of Italians in Toronto and Montreal / Nicholas Demaria Harney
- At home on the street : public art in Montreal and Toronto / Johanne Sloan
- Film festivals as urban encounter and cultural traffic / Dipti Gupta and Janine Marchessault
- Divergent diversities : pluralizing Toronto and Montreal / Jenny Burman
- Reflexive theorizing while travelling through Montreal and Toronto : the global cities discourse, new urbanism, and the travel essays of Jan Morris / Kieran Bonner.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786612867521
- 9780773584754
- 0773584757
- 9781282867529
- 1282867520
- 9780773577077
- 0773577076
- OCLC:
- 760073043
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