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The spaces of the modern city : imaginaries, politics, and everyday life
- Title
- The spaces of the modern city : imaginaries, politics, and everyday life / edited by Gyan Prakash and Kevin M. Kruse.
- Publication
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- x, 457 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- 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. 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 08-4232
- ISBN
- 9780691133393 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0691133395 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780691133430 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0691133433 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007021223
- OCLC
- 137222795
- Title
- The spaces of the modern city : imaginaries, politics, and everyday life / edited by Gyan Prakash and Kevin M. Kruse.
- Imprint
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Added Author
- Prakash, Gyan, 1952-Kruse, Kevin Michael, 1972-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 08-4232