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Urban imaginaries :

0816648018 (hc : alk. paper)

0816648026 (pb : alk. paper)

9780816648016 (hc : alk. paper)

9780816648023 (pb : alk. paper)

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Urban imaginaries :

[Book]

locating the modern city /

Alev Çinar and Thomas Bender, editors

Minneapolis :

University of Minnesota Press,

c2007

xxvi, 290 p. :

ill., map ;

23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: The city : experience, imagination, and place / Alev Çinar 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 Yükseker -- 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 Çinar -- 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

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Cities and towns

Cities and towns, Cross-cultural studies

Social history-- 1970-

Sociology, Urban

Bender, Thomas

Cinar, Alev

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