The Spaces of the Modern City

Imaginaries, Politics, and Everyday Life

By: Gyan Prakash (Editor), Kevin M. Kruse (Editor)

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By United Nations estimates, 60 percent of the world's population will be urban by 2030. With the increasing speed of urbanization, especially in the developing world, scholars are now rethinking standard concepts and histories of modern cities. The Spaces of the Modern City historicizes the contemporary discussion of urbanism, highlighting the local and global breadth of the city landscape.

This interdisciplinary collection examines how the city develops in the interactions of space and imagination. The essays focus on issues such as street design in Vienna, the motion picture industry in Los Angeles, architecture in Marseilles and Algiers, and the kaleidoscopic paradox of post-apartheid Johannesburg. They explore the nature of spatial politics, examining the disparate worlds of eighteenth-century Baghdad, nineteenth-century Morelia, Cold War-era West Berlin, and postwar Los Angeles. They also show the meaning of everyday spaces to urban life, illuminating issues such as crime in metropolitan London, youth culture in Dakar, "memory projects" in Tokyo, and Bombay cinema. Informed by a range of theoretical writings, this collection offers a fresh and truly global perspective on the nature of the modern city.

The contributors are Sheila Crane, Belinda Davis, Mamadou Diouf, Philip J. Ethington, David Frisby, Christina M. Jimenez, Dina Rizk Khoury, Ranjani Mazumdar, Frank Mort, Martin Murray, Jordan Sand, and Sarah Schrank.

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"This ambitious collection of essays is the result of a series of seminars at Princeton University aimed at developing fresh thinking about the city as a dynamic physical space that 'shapes, and is shaped by, power, economy, culture and society.' A fascinating introductory essay by Gyan Prakash outlines recent urban theorising and counters the idea that, in an age of globalisation, specific cityscapes are losing their significance: our urban experiences still depend on 'local lifeworlds', rich with memories and imagination."--The Guardian

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List of Illustrations	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Spatial Imaginaries	p. 19
Streets, Imaginaries, and Modernity: Vienna Is Not Berlin	p. 21
The Global Spaces of Los Angeles, 1920s-1930s	p. 58
Architecture at the Ends of Empire: Urban Reflections between Algiers and Marseille	p. 99
The City in Fragments: Kaleidoscopic Johannesburg after Apartheid	p. 144
Spatial Politics	p. 179
Violence and Spatial Politics between the Local and Imperial: Baghdad, 1778-1810	p. 181
From the Lettered City to the Sellers' City: Vendor Politics and Public Space in Urban Mexico, 1880-1926	p. 214
The City as Theater of Protest: West Berlin and West Germany, 1962-1983	p. 247
Nuestro Pueblo: The Spatial and Cultural Politics of Los Angeles' Watts Towers	p. 275
Spaces of Everyday Life	p. 311
Morality, Majesty, and Murder in 1950s London: Metropolitan Culture and English Modernity	p. 313
(Re)Imagining an African City: Performing Culture, Arts, and Citizenship in Dakar (Senegal), 1980-2000	p. 346
Street Observation Science and the Tokyo Economic Bubble, 1986-1990	p. 373
Spectacle and Death in the City of Bombay Cinema	p. 401
Contributors	p. 433
Index	p. 437
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