Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.

Description:

xxvi, 290 pages

Notes:
Bibliogr.
Introduction : The city : experience, imagination, and place / Alev Cinar 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 Yukseker -- 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 Cinar -- 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.

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 [this book] 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."--Résumé de l'éditeur, p. [4] de la couv.

Resources:
Table des matières
Notice et cote du catalogue de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
Table des matières

ISBN:

9780816648016 (hc ; alk. paper)
0816648018 (hc ; alk. paper)
9780816648023 (pb ; alk. paper)
0816648026 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Cities and towns.
Cities and towns Cross-cultural studies.
Sociology, Urban.
Social history 1970-
Cities
Villes.
Villes Études transculturelles.
Sociologie urbaine.
Histoire sociale 1970-
cities.
urban sociology.
Social history.
Histoire sociale 1970-2000.
Aspect sociologique.
Étude transculturelle.
Modernité.
Ville.
Lieux imaginaires.

Form/genre:

Cross-cultural studies.
[Études transculturelles]

Added entries:

Bender, Thomas.
Cinar, Alev.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 257873
Call No.: BIB 188424
Status: Available