On global grounds : urban change and globalization /

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Imprint:New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.
Description:xxiv, 173 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7552524
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Other authors / contributors:Nevarez, Julia.
Moser, Gabriel.
ISBN:9781606920008 (hardcover)
1606920006 (hardcover)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • On Global Grounds: Issues and Problematics of Globalization and Urban Change
  • Flexibility and Hybridity: Learning from the Contemporary Village in Anatolian Turkey
  • Whither Urban Nationalism? Public Life in Governor Sutiyoso's Jakarta
  • The Relevance of Architectural Modernism to Countries in Transition: Kampala, Uganda
  • Connective Distancing in Contemporary Cities
  • Duality, Globalization and Urban Culture
  • The Global Edifice Complex: Melbourne, Australia
  • Barcelona's Global Change Year 2000: Global Constraints and Local Social Life
  • Sociability and Environmental Anchoring in Paris: From Local Attachment to Urban identity
  • Locating the global in Harlem, NYC: Urban Development Initiatives, Public Space, and Gentrification
  • Perspectives: Towards sustainable cities?
  • Index