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Circulation and the city : essays on urban culture / edited by Alexandra Boutros and Will Straw.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010Description: vi, 306 p. ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780773536654 (paperback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.76 CIR 23 011538
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction / Alexandra Boutros and Will Straw -- The mobile city. Language in the city, language of the city / Michael Darroch ; Telepathically urban / Jennifer Gabrys ; The imaginary of self-satisfaction : reflections on the platitude of the "creative city" / Alan Blum -- City Traffic. Absence, "removal," and everyday life in the diasporic city : anti-detention/deportation activism in Montreal / Jenny Burman ; The spirit of traffic : navigating faith in the city / Alexandra Boutros ; The ephemeral stage at Lionel Groulx Station / Amanda Boetzkes ; Cities of rhythm and revolution / tobias c. van Veen -- City circuits. Spectacles of waste / Will Straw ; Places of global shape : the world consumption in divided Berlin / Alexander Sedlmaier and Barthold Pelzer ; Modern heroics : the Flâneur in Adolfo Bioy Casares's El sueño de los héroes / Amanda Holmes ; Temple bar, density and circulation : the city as a terrain of many voices / Kieran Bonner
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Book Book Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore 307.76 CIR 011538 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 011538

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-302).

Introduction / Alexandra Boutros and Will Straw -- The mobile city. Language in the city, language of the city / Michael Darroch ; Telepathically urban / Jennifer Gabrys ; The imaginary of self-satisfaction : reflections on the platitude of the "creative city" / Alan Blum -- City Traffic. Absence, "removal," and everyday life in the diasporic city : anti-detention/deportation activism in Montreal / Jenny Burman ; The spirit of traffic : navigating faith in the city / Alexandra Boutros ; The ephemeral stage at Lionel Groulx Station / Amanda Boetzkes ; Cities of rhythm and revolution / tobias c. van Veen -- City circuits. Spectacles of waste / Will Straw ; Places of global shape : the world consumption in divided Berlin / Alexander Sedlmaier and Barthold Pelzer ; Modern heroics : the Flâneur in Adolfo Bioy Casares's El sueño de los héroes / Amanda Holmes ; Temple bar, density and circulation : the city as a terrain of many voices / Kieran Bonner

Includes some text in French and German.

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