Circulation and the city essays on urban culture
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- ISBN: 9780773581012 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0773581014 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780773536647
- ISBN: 0773536647
- ISBN: 9780773536654
- ISBN: 0773536655
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (vi, 306 p.) - Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-302) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 |
Language Note: | Includes some text in French and German. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Genre: | Electronic books. |