Circulation and the city: essays on urban culture
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Montreal McGill-Queen's University Press c2010
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-302) and index
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
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
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