The Spaces of the Modern City : : Imaginaries, Politics, and Everyday Life /

The Spaces of the Modern City : : Imaginaries, Politics, and Everyday Life / / ed. by Kevin M. Kruse, Gyan Prakash.

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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MitwirkendeR:
Crane, Sheila,
Davis, Belinda,
Diouf, Mamadou,
Ethington, Philip,
Frisby, David,
Jimenez, Christina,
Khoury, Dina,
Mazumdar, Ranjani,
Mort, Frank,
Murray, Martin,
Prakash, Cyan,
Sand, Jordan,
Schrank, Sarah,
HerausgeberIn:
Kruse, Kevin M.,
Prakash, Gyan,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©2008
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (472 p.) :; 27 halftones. 5 line illus. 4 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Contributors
  • SPATIAL IMAGINARIES
  • CHAPTER 1 Streets, Imaginaries, and Modernity: Vienna Is Not Berlin
  • CHAPTER 2 The Global Spaces of Los Angeles, 1920s-1930s
  • CHAPTER 3 Architecture at the Ends of Empire: Urban Reflections between Algiers and Marseille
  • CHAPTER 4 The City in Fragments: Kaleidoscopic Johannesburg after Apartheid
  • SPATIAL POLITICS
  • CHAPTER 5 Violence and Spatial Politics between the Local and Imperial: Baghdad, 1778-1810
  • CHAPTER 6 From the Lettered City to the Sellers' City: Vendor Politics and Public Space in Urban Mexico, 1880-1926
  • CHAPTER 7 The City as Theater of Protest: West Berlin and West Germany, 1962-1983
  • CHAPTER 8 Nuestro Pueblo: The Spatial and Cultural Politics of Los Angeles' Watts Towers
  • SPACES OF EVERYDAY LIFE
  • CHAPTER 9 Morality, Majesty, and Murder in 1950s London: Metropolitan Culture and English Modernity
  • CHAPTER 10 (Re) Imagining an African City: Performing Culture, Arts, and Citizenship in Dakar (Senegal), 1980-2000
  • CHAPTER 11 Street Observation Science and the Tokyo Economic Bubble, 1986-1990
  • CHAPTER 12 Spectacle and Death in the City of Bombay Cinema
  • Contributors
  • Index

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