Circulation and the city essays on urban culture / edited by Alexandra Boutros and Will Straw.

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Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Boutros, Alexandra, 1971-, Straw, Will, 1954-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
French
German
Published: Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010.
Series:Culture of cities.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.