Format:
VIII, 213 S.
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Ill.
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24 cm
ISBN:
0813532752
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9780813532752
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0813532760
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9780813532769
Series Statement:
New directions in international studies
Content:
In Global Cities, scholars from an impressive array of disciplines--sociology, political science, comparative literature, cinema studies, and architectural theory--critique the growing body of literature on the current process broadly known as "globalization." This inter disciplinary focus enables the authors to explore the complex geographies of modern cities, and to offer possible strategies for reclaiming a sense of place and community in these globalized urban settings. While examining major cities including New York, Tokyo, Berlin, Paris, and Hong Kong, contributores insist that the study of urban experiences must remain as attentive to the material effects as to the psychic and social consequences of globalization. Accordingly, individual essays explore the implications of global culture for architecture, cinema, and communication-but do so in a way that highlights the importance of the spaces between such metropolitan centers, These locations, the authors argue, serve as increasingly important "frontier zones, " where an incredibly diverse set of actors converge and struggle for power and presence. Such a perspective, they contend, ultimately adds nuance and meaning to our understanding of the heterogeneous urban landscapes of these global cities.
Note:
Reading the city in a global digital age: between topographic representation and spatialized power projects / Saskia Sassen -- Collective memory and locality in global cities / Jennifer Jordan -- Gobbled up and gone: cultural preservation and the global city marketplace / Tasha G. Oren -- Los toquis, or urban babel / Nataša Ďurovičová -- Too close to home: Naruse Mikio and Japanese cinema of the 1950s / Catherine Russell -- Authenticity and globalization / John B. Hertz -- Global cannibal city machines: recent visions of urban/social space / Peter Sands -- Cinema, the city, and the cinematic / Ackbar Abbas -- Codes, collectives, and commodities: rethinking global cities as metalogistical spaces / Timothy W. Luke -- Some thoughts on cities: visions and plans / Jorge Annibal-Iribarne -- Architecture and memory / Jo Noero.
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Stadt
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Film
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Stadt
;
Gesellschaft
;
Neue Medien
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Konferenzschrift
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