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Urban Imaginaries

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Description for Urban Imaginaries Paperback. Editor(s): Cinar, Alev; Bender, Thomas. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.

For millennia, the city stood out against the landscape, walled and compact. This concept of the city was long accepted as adequate for characterizing the urban experience. However, the nature of the city, both real and imagined, has always been more permeable than this model reveals.

 

The essays in Urban Imaginaries respond to this condition by focusing on how social and physical space is conceived as both indefinite and singular. They emphasize the ways this space is shared and thus made into urban culture. Urban Imaginaries offers case studies on cities in Brazil, Israel, Turkey, Lebanon, and India, as well ... Read more

 

Contributors: Margaret Cohen, Stanford U; Camilla Fojas, De Paul U; Beatriz Jaguaribe, Federal U of Rio de Janeiro; Anthony D. King, SUNY Binghamton; Mark LeVine, U of California, Irvine; Srirupa Roy, U of Massachusetts, Amherst; Seteney Shami, Social Science Research Council; AbdouMaliq Simone, New School U; Maha Yahya; Deniz Yükseker, Koç U, Istanbul.

 

Alev Çinar is associate professor of political science and public administration at Bilkent University, Turkey. Thomas Bender is university professor of the humanities and history at New York University.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816648023
SKU
V9780816648023
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