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

Contributor(s): Boutros, Alexandra, 1971- | Straw, Will, 1954- | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, French, German Series: Culture of citiesPublication details: Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010Description: vi, 306 pISBN: 9780773581012 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Sociology, Urban | Sociology, Urban -- Quebec (Province) -- MontrealGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 307.76 LOC classification: HT153 | .C47 2010Online resources: Click to View
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 Flaneur in Adolfo Bioy Casares's El sueno de los heroes / Amanda Holmes -- Temple bar, density and circulation -- the city as a terrain of many voices / Kieran Bonner.
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Includes bibliographical references 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 Flaneur in Adolfo Bioy Casares's El sueno de los heroes / Amanda Holmes -- Temple bar, density and circulation -- the city as a terrain of many voices / Kieran Bonner.

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Includes some text in French and German.

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