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Title:

The spaces of the modern city : imaginaries, politics, and everyday life / edited by Gyan Prakash and Kevin M. Kruse.

Publisher:

Princeton University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

x, 457 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Cities and towns--Case studies.
Sociology, Urban--Case studies.

Other Authors:

Prakash, Gyan, 1952-
Kruse, Kevin Michael, 1972-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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. Jim©♭nez -- 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.

ISBN:

0691133433 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780691133430 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0691133395 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780691133393 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)137222795

LCCN:

2007021223

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)