Other cities, other worlds : urban imaginaries in a globalizing age /

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Imprint:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Description:	viii, 327 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Cities and towns -- Developing countries. Urbanization -- Developing countries. Urban geography -- Developing countries. Globalization -- Social aspects -- Developing countries. Cities and towns. Globalization -- Social aspects. Urban geography. Urbanization. Developing countries.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7413855

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Other authors / contributors:	Huyssen, Andreas.
ISBN:	9780822342489 (cloth : alk. paper) 0822342480 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822342717 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0822342715 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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"--P. [vii]. Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-319) and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction: World Cultures, World Cities
Latin America
Cultural Landscapes: Buenos Aires from Integration to Fracture
From Modernism to Neoliberalism in São Paulo: Reconfiguring the City and Its Citizens
Mexico City, 2010: Improvising Globalization
Africa
The Last Shall Be First: African Urbanites and the Larger Urban World
Unsettling Johannesburg: The Country in the City
Mega-exhibitions: The Antinomies of a Transnational Global Form
Asia
Mumbai: The Modern City in Ruins
Negotiating the Static and Kinetic Cities: The Emergent Urbanism of Mumbai
Remapping Beijing: Polylocality, Globalization, Cinema
Faking Globalization
Middle East
Two Dreams in a Global City: Class and Space in Urban Egypt
Hüzün--Melancholy--Tristesse of Istanbul
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

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