Urban enigmas Montreal, Toronto, and the problem of comparing cities
Record details
- ISBN: 0773531823 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780773531826 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0773531815
- ISBN: 9780773531819
- ISBN: 0773577076 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780773577077 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xi, 298 pages).
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electronic resource - Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2007.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Terms of use - Multi-User. Issued as part of the desLibris books collection. CatMonthString:january.17 Multi-user. CatMonthString:jun.14 |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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