The spaces of the modern city imaginaries, politics, and everyday life / [Texte imprimé] :
edited by Gyan Prakash and Kevin M. Kruse
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, cop. 2008
- 1 vol. (x-457 p.) : ill., couv. ill., cartes ; 24 cm
Index
Notes bibliogr.
Introduction -- Spatial imaginaries -- Streets, imaginaries, and modernity: Vienna is not Berlin / David Frisby -- The global spaces of Los Angeles, 1920s-1930s / Philip J. Ethington -- Architecture at the ends of empire: urban reflections between Algiers and Marseille / Sheila Crane -- The city in fragments: kaleidoscopic Johannesburg after apartheid / Martin J. Murray -- Spatial politics -- Violence and spatial politics between the local and imperial: Baghdad 1778-1810 / Dina Rizk Khoury -- From the lettered city to the sellers' city: vendor politics and public space in urban Mexico, 1880-1926 / Christina M. Jiménez -- The city as theater of protest: West Berlin and West Germany, 1962-83 / Belinda Davis -- Nuestro pueblo: the spatial and cultural politics of Los Angeles' Watts Towers / Sarah Schrank -- Spaces of everyday life -- Morality, majesty, and murder in 1950s London: metropolitan culture and English modernity / Frank Mort -- (Re)Imagining an African city: performing culture, arts, and citizenship in Dakar (Senegal), 1980-2000 / Mamadou Diouf -- Street observation science and the Tokyo economic bubble, 1986-1990 / Jordan Sand -- Spectacle and death in the city of Bombay cinema / Ranjani Mazumdar -- Index