TY - BOOK AU - Peterson,Marina AU - McDonogh,Gary TI - Global Downtowns T2 - The City in the Twenty-First Century Series SN - 9780812208054 AV - HT166 -- .G577 2012eb PY - 2012/// CY - Philadelphia PB - University of Pennsylvania Press KW - City planning-History-20th century KW - Central business districts KW - Urban anthropology KW - Culture and globalization KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3441886 ER -