The Spaces of the Modern City Imaginaries, Politics, and Everyday Life / edited by Gyan Prakash and Kevin M. Kruse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kruse, Kevin M., 1972- ed.

Prakash, Gyan, 1952- ed.

Series:

Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University

Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociologia urbana.

Urbanisme.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (472 p.) : 27 halftones. 5 line illus. 4 maps.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

By United Nations estimates, 60 percent of the world's population will be urban by 2030. With the increasing speed of urbanization, especially in the developing world, scholars are now rethinking standard concepts and histories of modern cities. The Spaces of the Modern City historicizes the contemporary discussion of urbanism, highlighting the local and global breadth of the city landscape. This interdisciplinary collection examines how the city develops in the interactions of space and imagination. The essays focus on issues such as street design in Vienna, the motion picture industry in Los Angeles, architecture in Marseilles and Algiers, and the kaleidoscopic paradox of post-apartheid Johannesburg. They explore the nature of spatial politics, examining the disparate worlds of eighteenth-century Baghdad, nineteenth-century Morelia, Cold War-era West Berlin, and postwar Los Angeles. They also show the meaning of everyday spaces to urban life, illuminating issues such as crime in metropolitan London, youth culture in Dakar, "memory projects" in Tokyo, and Bombay cinema. Informed by a range of theoretical writings, this collection offers a fresh and truly global perspective on the nature of the modern city. The contributors are Sheila Crane, Belinda Davis, Mamadou Diouf, Philip J. Ethington, David Frisby, Christina M. Jiménez, Dina Rizk Khoury, Ranjani Mazumdar, Frank Mort, Martin Murray, Jordan Sand, and Sarah Schrank.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

Contributors

SPATIAL IMAGINARIES

CHAPTER 1 Streets, Imaginaries, and Modernity: Vienna Is Not Berlin

CHAPTER 2 The Global Spaces of Los Angeles, 1920s-1930s

CHAPTER 3 Architecture at the Ends of Empire: Urban Reflections between Algiers and Marseille

CHAPTER 4 The City in Fragments: Kaleidoscopic Johannesburg after Apartheid

SPATIAL POLITICS

CHAPTER 5 Violence and Spatial Politics between the Local and Imperial: Baghdad, 1778-1810

CHAPTER 6 From the Lettered City to the Sellers' City: Vendor Politics and Public Space in Urban Mexico, 1880-1926

CHAPTER 7 The City as Theater of Protest: West Berlin and West Germany, 1962-1983

CHAPTER 8 Nuestro Pueblo: The Spatial and Cultural Politics of Los Angeles' Watts Towers

SPACES OF EVERYDAY LIFE

CHAPTER 9 Morality, Majesty, and Murder in 1950s London: Metropolitan Culture and English Modernity

CHAPTER 10 (Re) Imagining an African City: Performing Culture, Arts, and Citizenship in Dakar (Senegal), 1980-2000

CHAPTER 11 Street Observation Science and the Tokyo Economic Bubble, 1986-1990

CHAPTER 12 Spectacle and Death in the City of Bombay Cinema

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691133430

0691133433

9781400839308

1400839300

OCLC:

1251449635