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Global Downtowns.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The City in the Twenty-First Century SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (369 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812208054
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Global DowntownsLOC classification:
  • HT166 -- .G577 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Globalizing Downtown -- Part I. Imagination -- 1. Toward a Genealogy of Downtowns -- 2. From Peking to Beijing: Production of Centrality in the Global Age -- 3. Simulations of Barcelona: Urban Projects in Port Spaces (1981-2002) -- 4. Urbanist Ideology and the Production of Space in the United Arab Emirates: An Anthropological Critique -- Part II. Consumption -- 5. Reaching for Dubai: Nashville Dreams of a Twenty-First-Century Skyline -- 6. From National Utopia to Elite Enclave: "Economic Realities" and Resistance in the Reconstruction of Beirut -- 7. When the Film Festival Comes to (Down)Town: Transnational Circuits, Tourism, and the Urban Economy of Images -- 8. The Future of the Past: World Heritage, National Identity, and Urban Centrality in Late Socialist Cuba -- Part III. Conflict -- 9. Utopia/Dystopia: Art and Downtown Development in Los Angeles -- 10. "Slum-Free Mumbai" and Other Entrepreneurial Strategies in the Making of Mumbai's Global Downtown -- 11. Downtown as Brand, Downtown as Land: Urban Elites and Neoliberal Development in Contemporary New York City -- 12. Beside Downtown: Global Chinatowns -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: 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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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Globalizing Downtown -- Part I. Imagination -- 1. Toward a Genealogy of Downtowns -- 2. From Peking to Beijing: Production of Centrality in the Global Age -- 3. Simulations of Barcelona: Urban Projects in Port Spaces (1981-2002) -- 4. Urbanist Ideology and the Production of Space in the United Arab Emirates: An Anthropological Critique -- Part II. Consumption -- 5. Reaching for Dubai: Nashville Dreams of a Twenty-First-Century Skyline -- 6. From National Utopia to Elite Enclave: "Economic Realities" and Resistance in the Reconstruction of Beirut -- 7. When the Film Festival Comes to (Down)Town: Transnational Circuits, Tourism, and the Urban Economy of Images -- 8. The Future of the Past: World Heritage, National Identity, and Urban Centrality in Late Socialist Cuba -- Part III. Conflict -- 9. Utopia/Dystopia: Art and Downtown Development in Los Angeles -- 10. "Slum-Free Mumbai" and Other Entrepreneurial Strategies in the Making of Mumbai's Global Downtown -- 11. Downtown as Brand, Downtown as Land: Urban Elites and Neoliberal Development in Contemporary New York City -- 12. Beside Downtown: Global Chinatowns -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.

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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