The spaces of the modern city : imaginaries, politics, and everyday life /
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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Table of 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. 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.