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

Contributor(s): Series: e-Duke books scholarly collectionPublication details: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2008.Description: viii, 327 p. : illContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HT149.5 .O84 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: World Cultures, World Cities / Andreas Huyssen -- Cultural Landscapes: Buenos Aires from Integration to Fracture / Beatriz Sarlo -- From Modernism to Neoliberalism in São Paulo: Reconfiguring the City and Its Citizens / Teresa P.R. Caldeira -- Mexico City, 2010: Improvising Globalization / Néstor García 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 -- Hüzün, Melancholy, Tristesse of Istanbul / Orhan Pamuk.

"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.

Introduction: World Cultures, World Cities / Andreas Huyssen -- Cultural Landscapes: Buenos Aires from Integration to Fracture / Beatriz Sarlo -- From Modernism to Neoliberalism in São Paulo: Reconfiguring the City and Its Citizens / Teresa P.R. Caldeira -- Mexico City, 2010: Improvising Globalization / Néstor García 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 -- Hüzün, Melancholy, Tristesse of Istanbul / Orhan Pamuk.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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