Other cities, other worlds : urban imaginaries in a globalizing age / edited by Andreas Huyssen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Huyssen, Andreas.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Developing countries.

Cities and towns.

Urbanization--Developing countries.

Urbanization.

Urban geography--Developing countries.

Urban geography.

Globalization--Social aspects--Developing countries.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Collection of essays that examines the effects of globalization on non-Western cities.

Contents:

Introduction: World Cultures, World Cities / Andreas Huyssen

Cultural Landscapes: Buenos Aires from Integration to Fracture / Beatriz Sarlo

From Modernism to Neoliberalism in Sao Paulo: Reconfiguring the City and Its Citizens / Teresa P.R. Caldeira

Mexico City, 2010: Improvising Globalization / Nestor Garcia Canclini

The Last Shall Be First: African Urbanities and the Larger Urban World / Abdou Maliq Simone

Unsettling Johannesburg: The Country in the City / Hilton Judin

Mega-exhibitions: The Antinomies of a Transnational Global Form / Okwui Enwezor

Mumbai: The Modern City in Ruins / Gyan Prakash

Negotiating the Static and Kinetic Cities: The Emergent Urbanism of Mumbai / Rahul Mehrotra

Remapping Beijing: Polylocality, Globalization, Cinema / Yingjin Zhang

Faking Globalization / Ackbar Abbas

Two Dreams in a Global City: Class and Space in Urban Egypt / Farha Ghannam

Huzun, Melancholy, Tristesse of Istanbul / Orhan Pamuk.

Notes:

"The essays that make up this volume were first presented as formal lectures in a year-long graduate research seminar in 2001-2002 at Columbia University"--Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613022912

9781283022910

1283022915

9780822389361

0822389363

OCLC:

308677463