Circulation and the city : essays on urban culture / edited by Alexandra Boutros and Will Straw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boutros, Alexandra, 1971- Author.

Contributor:

Boutros, Alexandra, 1971-

Straw, Will, 1954-

Series:

Culture of cities.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban.

Sociology, Urban--Québec (Province)--Montréal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca [New York] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As urban dwellers travel to work, home and play they carve random or predictable pathways across neighbourhoods and districts. This book investigates the urban capacity for movement, the city as a space of circulation, by taking into account not only the physical displacement of people, but also the circulation of cultures, things, and ideas.

Contents:

Introduction / Alexandra Boutros and Will Straw

The mobile city

Language in the city, language of the city / Michael Darroch

Telepathically urban / Jennifer Gabrys

The imaginary of self-satisfaction : reflections on the platitude of the "creative city" / Alan Blum

City Traffic. Absence, "removal," and everyday life in the diasporic city

Anti-detention/deportation activism in Montreal / Jenny Burman

The spirit of traffic : navigating faith in the city / Alexandra Boutros

The ephemeral stage at Lionel Groulx Station / Amanda Boetzkes

Cities of rhythm and revolution / tobias c. van Veen

City circuits. Spectacles of waste / Will Straw

Places of global shape : the world consumption in divided Berlin / Alexander Sedlmaier and Barthold Pelzer

Modern heroics

the Flâneur in Adolfo Bioy Casares's El sueño de los héroes / Amanda Holmes

Temple bar, density and circulation

the city as a terrain of many voices / Kieran Bonner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-53036-8

9786613842817

0-7735-8101-4

OCLC:

767669615