Circulation and the City
Essays on Urban Culture
(Sprache: Englisch)
As urban dwellers travel to work, home and play they carve random or predictable pathways across neighbourhoods and districts. This book investigates the urban capacity for movement, the city as a space of circulation, by taking into account not only the...
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As urban dwellers travel to work, home and play they carve random or predictable pathways across neighbourhoods and districts. This book investigates the urban capacity for movement, the city as a space of circulation, by taking into account not only the physical displacement of people, but also the circulation of cultures, things, and ideas.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Circulation and the City “
Introduction / Alexandra Boutros and Will Straw PART ONE THE MOBILE CITY 1 Language in the City, Language of the City / Michael Darroch; 2 Telepathically Urban / Jennifer Gabrys; 3 The Imaginary of Self-Satisfaction: Reflections on the Platitude of the "Creative City" / Alan Blum PART TWO CITY TRAFFIC 4 Absence, "Removal," and Everyday Life in the Diasporic City: Anti-Detention/Deportation Activism in Montreal / Jenny Burman; 5 The Spirit of Traffic: Navigating Faith in the City / Alexandra Boutros; 6 The Ephemeral Stage at Lionel Groulx Station / Amanda Boetzkes; 7 Cities of Rhythm and Revolution / Tobias c. van Veen PART THREE CITY CIRCUITS 8 Spectacles of Waste / Will Straw; 9 Places of Global Shape: The World of Consumption in Divided Berlin / Alexander Sedlmaier and Barthold Pelzer; 10 Modern Heroics: The Flaneur in Adolfo Bioy Casares's El sueno de los heroes / Amanda Holmes; 11 Temple Bar, Density and Circulation: The City as a Terrain of Many Voices / Kieran Bonner Bibliography; Contributors
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Alexandra Boutros
- 2010, 312 Seiten, Maße: 15,4 x 23 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Combined Academic Publ.
- ISBN-10: 0773536655
- ISBN-13: 9780773536654
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „Circulation and the City “
"The theoretical and materialist attention to circulation, movement and rhythm in the city is part of a contemporary debate in the social sciences and humanities and this volume adds considerable depth to what is an important discussion." Ben Highmore
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