Circulation and the city essays on urban culture / [electronic resource] : edited by Alexandra Boutros and Will Straw. - Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010. - vi, 306 p. - Culture of cities . - Culture of cities. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.


Includes some text in French and German.

9780773581012 (electronic bk.)




Sociology, Urban.
Sociology, Urban--Quebec (Province)--Montreal.


Electronic books.

HT153 / .C47 2010

307.76