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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
245 0 0 _aGlobal Downtowns /
_ced. by Gary McDonogh, Marina Peterson.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2012]
264 4 _c©2012
300 _a1 online resource (368 p.) :
_b13 illus.
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490 0 _aThe City in the Twenty-First Century
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tIntroduction: Globalizing Downtown --
_tPART I. Imagination --
_t1. Toward a Genealogy of Downtowns --
_t2. From Peking to Beijing: Production of Centrality in the Global Age --
_t3. Simulations of Barcelona: Urban Projects in Port Spaces (1981- 2002) --
_t4. Urbanist Ideology and the Production of Space in the United Arab Emirates: An Anthropological Critique --
_tPART II. Consumption --
_t5. Reaching for Dubai: Nashville Dreams of a Twenty- First- Century Skyline --
_t6. From National Utopia to Elite Enclave: "Economic Realities" and Resistance in the Reconstruction of Beirut --
_t7. When the Film Festival Comes to (Down)Town: Transnational Circuits, Tourism, and the Urban Economy of Images --
_t8. The Future of the Past: World Heritage, National Identity, and Urban Centrality in Late Socialist Cuba --
_tPART III. Conflict --
_t9. Utopia/Dystopia: Art and Downtown Development in Los Angeles --
_t10. "Slum- Free Mumbai" and Other Entrepreneurial Strategies in the Making of Mumbai's Global Downtown --
_t11. Downtown as Brand, Downtown as Land: Urban Elites and Neoliberal Development in Contemporary New York City --
_t12. Beside Downtown: Global Chinatowns --
_tNOTES --
_tBibliography --
_tContributors --
_tIndex --
_tAcknowledgments
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aGlobal Downtowns reconsiders one of the defining features of urban life-the energy and exuberance that characterize downtown areas-within a framework of contemporary globalization and change. It analyzes the iconic centers of global cities through individual case studies from Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the United States, considering issues of function, population, imagery, and growth. Contributors to the volume use ethnographic and cultural analysis to identify downtowns as products of the activities of planners, power elites, and consumers and as zones of conflict and competition. Whether claiming space on a world stage through architecture, media events, or historical tourism or facing the claims of different social groups for a place at the center, downtowns embody the heritage of the modern city and its future.Essays draw on extensive fieldwork and archival study in Beijing, Barcelona, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dar es Salaam, Dubai, Nashville, Lima, Philadelphia, Mumbai, Havana, Beirut, and Paris, among other cities. They examine the visions of planners and developers, cultural producers, governments, theoreticians, immigrants, and outcasts. Through these perspectives, the book explores questions of space and place, consumption, mediation, and images as well as the processes by which urban elites learn from each other as well as contest local hegemony.Global Downtowns raises important questions for those who work with issues of urban centrality in governance, planning, investment, preservation, and social reform. The volume insists that however important the narratives of individual spaces-theories of American downtowns, images of global souks, or diasporic formations of ethnic enclaves as interconnected nodes-they also must be situated within a larger, dynamic framework of downtowns as centers of modern urban imagination.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2022)
650 0 _aCentral business districts.
650 0 _aCity planning
_x20th century.
650 0 _aCity planning
_y20th century.
650 0 _aCulture and globalization.
650 0 _aUrban anthropology.
650 4 _aUrban Studies.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban.
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653 _aGeneral.
653 _aSocial Science.
653 _aUrban Studies.
700 1 _aBrash, Julian
_eautore
700 1 _aChristens, Brian D.
_eautore
700 1 _aCunningham Bissell, William
_eautore
700 1 _aHill, Matthew J.
_eautore
700 1 _aHing- Yuk Wong, Cindy
_eautore
700 1 _aHourani, Najib
_eautore
700 1 _aKanna, Ahmed
_eautore
700 1 _aLloyd, Richard
_eautore
700 1 _aMagrinyà, Francesc
_eautore
700 1 _aMaza, Gaspar
_eautore
700 1 _aMcDonogh, Gary
_ecuratore
700 1 _aMcDonogh, Gary W.
_eautore
700 1 _aPeterson, Marina
_eautore
_ecuratore
700 1 _aRen, Xuefei
_eautore
700 1 _aRotenberg, Robert
_eautore
700 1 _aWeinstein, Liza
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812208054
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812208054
856 4 2 _3Cover
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