Urban enigmas : Montreal, Toronto, and the problem of comparing cities /

The practice of comparison is implicit in every act of imagining, representing, and studying urban experience. Urban Enigmas contributes to recent interdisciplinary interest in cities by introducing comparison as a key methodology for urban cultural analysis.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sloan, Johanne (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2007.
Colección:Culture of cities.
Temas:
Arts and society > Ontario > Toronto.
Arts and society > Québec (Province) > Montréal.
Sociology, Urban > Ontario > Toronto.
Sociology, Urban > Québec (Province) > Montréal.
Cultural pluralism > Ontario > Toronto.
Cultural pluralism > Québec (Province) > Montréal.
Arts et société > Ontario > Toronto.
Arts et société > Québec (Province) > Montréal.
Sociologie urbaine > Ontario > Toronto.
Sociologie urbaine > Québec (Province) > Montréal.
Diversité culturelle > Ontario > Toronto.
Diversité culturelle > Québec (Province) > Montréal.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > City Planning & Urban Development.
Arts and society
Cultural pluralism
Social conditions
Sociology, Urban
Stadtentwicklung
Toronto (Ont.) > Social conditions.
Montréal (Québec) > Social conditions.
Toronto (Ont.) > Conditions sociales.
Montréal (Québec) > Conditions sociales.
Ontario > Toronto
Québec > Montréal
Toronto
Montréal
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Comparing cities : on the mutual honouring of peculiarities / Alan Blum
  • Comparing the cultures of cities : epistemological perspectives on the concept of metropolis from the cultural sciences / Jean-François Coté
  • "To squeeze a single sentence out" : estrangement and disenchantment in Benjamin's "Marseilles" / Kevin Dowler
  • The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi : staging polyphony in Montreal and Toronto / Michael Darroch and Jean-François Morissette
  • Imagine-nation in the city : seriocomedy and local democracy / Greg M. Nielsen
  • Ethnicity, social organization, and urban space : a comparison of Italians in Toronto and Montreal / Nicholas Demaria Harney
  • At home on the street : public art in Montreal and Toronto / Johanne Sloan
  • Film festivals as urban encounter and cultural traffic / Dipti Gupta and Janine Marchessault
  • Divergent diversities : pluralizing Toronto and Montreal / Jenny Burman
  • Reflexive theorizing while travelling through Montreal and Toronto : the global cities discourse, new urbanism, and the travel essays of Jan Morris / Kieran Bonner.

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