Other Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age

Published by Duke University Press 2008

Other Cities, Other Worlds

Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age

Edited by: Andreas Huyssen

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822389361

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About this book

Collection of essays that examines the effects of globalization on non-Western cities.

Author / Editor information

Andreas Huyssen is the Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His books include Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory and Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia. He is a founding member and co-editor of New German Critique: An Interdisciplinary Journal of German Studies, also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews

“Other Cities, Other Worlds is interdisciplinary in the best sense of the term. Architects and architectural historians and critics, art curators, anthropologists, cultural analysts and social theorists, historians and sociologists speak to and through each other, relating older urban forms to emergent ones, drawing on contemporary critical theory developed in the metropoles but put to new work. This book will affect how we think of globalization itself, as not just a top-down linear form of development and displacement but a far more complex set of interactions that the contributors do a very good job of beginning to comprehend.”—David Theo Goldberg, author of The Racial State

“Other Cities, Other Worlds offers quite brilliant and absorbing accounts of urban imaginaries in major cities outside the West. This is not just another globalization book but one of real distinction about contemporary urban life ‘elsewhere.’”—George E. Marcus, co-author of Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary

“This in-depth and wide-ranging study of the results of urban development in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East points not only to the radical transformations effected by the globalization of neoliberal capitalism but also to their fundamentally different effects on culture, city-form, and daily life, a mark of the ‘local’ in the ‘global.’ Written by experts in their respective fields and geographical areas, this unique collection of essays is unified by the editorial guidance provided by Andreas Huyssen, who has adroitly organized the book as a primer in the cultural analysis of worldwide economic transformation.”—Anthony Vidler, author of Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1. Introduction: World Cultures, World Cities Andreas Huyssen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Latin America
Cultural Landscapes: Buenos Aires from Integration to Fracture Beatriz Sarlo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
From Modernism to Neoliberalism in São Paulo: Reconfiguring the City and Its Citizens Teresa P. R. Caldeira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Mexico City, 2010: Improvising Globalization Néstor García Canclini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Africa
The Last Shall Be First: African Urbanities and the Larger Urban World AbdouMaliq Simone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Unsettling Johannesburg: The Country in the City Hilton Judin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Mega-exhibitions: The Antinomies of a Transnational Global Form Okwui Enwezor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Asia
Mumbai: The Modern City in Ruins Gyan Prakash Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Negotiating the Static and Kinetic Cities: The Emergent Urbanism of Mumbai Rahul Mehrotra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Remapping Beijing: Polylocality, Globalization, Cinema Yingjin Zhang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Faking Globalization Ackbar Abbas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Middle East
Two Dreams in a Global City: Class and Space in Urban Egypt Farha Ghannam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Hüzün—Melancholy—Tristesse of Istanbul Orhan Pamuk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 336
Illustrations
- Other: 74 illustrations

eBook

Published: November 11, 2008
ISBN: 9780822389361