The spaces of the modern city : imaginaries, politics, and everyday life /
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 co...
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| Формат: | Licensed eBooks |
| Хэл сонгох: | англи |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2008.
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| Цуврал: | Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University Ser.
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| Онлайн хандалт: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1j66706 |
| Тойм: | 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. |
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| Биет тодорхойлолт: | 1 online resource (x, 457 pages : illustrations, maps |
| Номзүй: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400839308 1400839300 9780691133393 0691133395 9780691133430 0691133433 |