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" Urban imaginaries : "
Alev Çinar and Thomas Bender, editors
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BL
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700676
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b522865
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Urban imaginaries : : locating the modern city /\ Alev Çinar and Thomas Bender, editors
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| Publication Statement
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Minneapolis :: University of Minnesota Press,, c2007
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xxvi, 290 p. :: ill., map ;; 23 cm
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0816648018 (hc : alk. paper)
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: 0816648026 (pb : alk. paper)
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: 9780816648016 (hc : alk. paper)
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: 9780816648023 (pb : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Introduction: The city : experience, imagination, and place / Alev Çinar and Thomas Bender -- Boundaries, networks, and cities : playing and replaying diasporas and histories / Anthony D. King -- Economy and gender in the urban borderland : the public culture of Laleli, Istanbul / Deniz Yükseker -- Borderlined in the global city (of angels) / Camilla Fojas -- Modernity on the waterfront : the case of Haussmann's Paris / Margaret Cohen -- Assembling Douala : imagining forms of urban sociality / AbdouMaliq Simone -- Cities without maps : favelas and the aesthetics of realism / Beatriz Jaguaribe -- Fateful triangles : modernity and its antinomies in a Mediterranean port city / Mark LeVine -- The imagined community as urban reality : the making of Ankara / Alev Çinar -- Urban space, national time, and postcolonial difference : the steel towns of India / Srirupa Roy -- "Amman is not a city" : Middle Eastern cities in question / Seteney Shami -- Let the dead be dead : communal imaginaries and national narratives in the post-civil war reconstruction of Beirut / Maha Yahya -- Conclusion: Reflections on the culture of urban modernity / Thomas Bender
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Cities and towns
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Cities and towns, Cross-cultural studies
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Social history-- 1970-
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Sociology, Urban
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307.76
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HT119.U692 2007
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Bender, Thomas
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Cinar, Alev
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