The Spirit of Cities : : Why the Identity of a City Matters in a Global Age /

The Spirit of Cities : : Why the Identity of a City Matters in a Global Age / / Avner de-Shalit, Daniel A. Bell.

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Cities shape the lives and outlooks of billions of people, yet they have been overshadowed in contemporary political thought by nation-states, identity groups, and concepts like justice and freedom. The Spirit of Cities revives the classical idea that a city expresses its own distinctive ethos or va...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Bell, Daniel A.,
de-Shalit, Avner,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©2014
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:With a New preface by the authors
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 10 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface to the Paperback Edition: The City and Identity
  • Introduction: Civicism
  • Jerusalem: The City of Religion
  • Montreal: The City of Language(s)
  • Singapore: The City of Nation Building
  • Hong Kong: The City of Materialism
  • Beijing: The City of Political Power
  • Oxford: The City of Learning
  • Berlin: The City of (In)Tolerance
  • Paris: The City of Romance
  • New York: The City of Ambition
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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