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Circulation and the city : essays on urban culture /

"The lived experience of cities has long been defined by motion. As urban dwellers travel to work, home, and play they carve random or predictable pathways across neighbourhoods and districts. Circulation and the City investigates the urban capacity for movement, the city as a space of circulat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Straw, Will, 1954- (Editor ), Boutros, Alexandra, 1971- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Alemán
Publicado: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2010]
Colección:Culture of cities.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Flâneur in Adolfo Bioy Casares's El sueño de los héroes / Amanda Holmes ; Temple bar, density and circulation : the city as a terrain of many voices / Kieran Bonner.