Imagining Cities
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2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; IMAGINING CITIES; Part I Theorising cities; 1 SIX DISCOURSES ON THE POSTMETROPOLIS; 2 IMAGINING THE REAL-TIME CITY: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, URBAN PARADIGMS AND THE FUTURE OF CITIES; 3 CHAOTIC PLACES OR COMPLEX PLACES? CITIES IN A POST-INDUSTRIAL ERA; Part II Racial/spatial imaginaries; 4 OUT OF THE MELTING POT INTO THE FIRE NEXT TIME: IMAGINING THE EAST END AS CITY, BODY, TEXT; 5 WHITE GOVERNMENTALITY: URBANISM, NATIONALISM, RACISM; 6 MIGRANT SPACES AND SETTLERS' TIME: FORMING AND DE-FORMING AN INNER CITY
- Part III Nostalgia/memory7 LOOKING BACKWARD, NOSTALGIA AND THE CITY; 8 AUTHENTICITY AND SUBURBIA; 9 'PROPER LITTLE MESTERS': NOSTALGIA AND PROTEST MASCULINITYIN DE-INDUSTRIALISED SHEFFIELD; Part IV Narrating cityscapes; 10 THIS, HERE, NOW: IMAGINING THE MODERN CITY; 11 (RE) PLACING THE CITY: CULTURAL RELOCATION AND THE CITY AS CENTRE; 12 ANGLICISING THE AMERICAN DREAM: TRAGEDY, FARCE AND THE 'POSTMODERN' CITY; Part V Virtual cities; 13 CYBERPUNK AS SOCIAL THEORY: WILLIAM GIBSON AND THE SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION; 14 CITIES, SUBJECTIVITY AND CYBERSPACE; Bibliography; Index