UID:
almafu_9958352419002883
Format:
1 online resource (368 pages) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Edition:
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ISBN:
9780812208054
Series Statement:
The City in the Twenty-First Century
Content:
Global Downtowns weaves together rich cultural materials from North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America to explore the most iconic space of modern urban imagery and identity. Essays bring diverse downtowns to life while probing deeper shared theoretical and pragmatic questions of power, division, consumption, and conflict.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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Introduction: Globalizing Downtown /
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1. Toward a Genealogy of Downtowns /
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2. From Peking to Beijing: Production of Centrality in the Global Age /
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3. Simulations of Barcelona: Urban Projects in Port Spaces (1981– 2002) /
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4. Urbanist Ideology and the Production of Space in the United Arab Emirates: An Anthropological Critique /
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5. Reaching for Dubai: Nashville Dreams of a Twenty- First- Century Skyline /
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6. From National Utopia to Elite Enclave: "Economic Realities" and Resistance in the Reconstruction of Beirut /
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7. When the Film Festival Comes to (Down)Town: Transnational Circuits, Tourism, and the Urban Economy of Images /
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8. The Future of the Past: World Heritage, National Identity, and Urban Centrality in Late Socialist Cuba /
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9. Utopia/Dystopia: Art and Downtown Development in Los Angeles /
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10. "Slum- Free Mumbai" and Other Entrepreneurial Strategies in the Making of Mumbai’s Global Downtown /
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11. Downtown as Brand, Downtown as Land: Urban Elites and Neoliberal Development in Contemporary New York City /
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12. Beside Downtown: Global Chinatowns /
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NOTES --
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Bibliography --
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Contributors --
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Index --
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Acknowledgments.
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.9783/9780812208054
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208054
URL:
https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208054
