| Series |
The city in the twenty-first century
City in the twenty-first century book series. ^A273939
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| Contents |
Introduction: Globalizing downtown / Gary W. McDonogh and Marina Peterson -- Toward a genealogy of downtowns / Robert Rotenberg -- From Peking to Beijing: production of centrality in the global age / Xuefei Ren -- Simulations of Barcelona: urban projects in port spaces (1981-2002) / Francesc Magrinyà and Gaspar Maza -- Urbanist ideology and the production of space in the United Arab Emirates: an anthropological critique / Ahmed Kanna -- Reaching for Dubai: Nashville dreams of a twenty-first-century skyline / Richard Lloyd and Brian D. Christens -- From national utopia to elite enclave: "economic realities" and resistance in the reconstruction of Beirut / Najib Hourani -- When the film festival comes to (down)town: transnational circuits, tourism, and the urban economy of images / William Cunningham Bissell -- The future of the past: world heritage, national identity, and urban centrality in late socialist Cuba / Matthew J. Hill -- Utopia/dystopia: art and downtown development in Los Angeles / Marina Peterson -- "Slum-free Mumbai" and other entrepreneurial strategies in the making of Mumbai's global downtown / Liza Weinstein -- Downtown as brand, downtown as land: urban elites and neoliberal development in contemporary New York City / Julian Brash -- Beside downtown: global Chinatowns / Gary W. McDonogh and Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-343) and index. |
| LCCN | 2011024487 |
| ISBN | 9780812243840 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0812243846 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
