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The Other Global City

Shail Mayaram

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Description:“Global cities” are generally exclusively defined by flows of global capital. This narrow conception of global urbanity invalidates cities such as Byzantium-Constantinople-Istanbul which has been a global city for over fifteen centuries, Abbasid Baghdad that once was a global city for science, and Bombay which has long claimed to be a global city for cinema and the arts.The present volume attempts to redress the balance. It contends that thinking about the city in the longue duree and as part of a network of regions, contests both imperial and nationalist ways of reading cities. In doing so, it looks at what recent literature overlooks, presents neglected counter-cartographies and foregrounds subaltern cosmopolitanisms. Chapters on Istanbul, Beirut and Cairo present counter-cartographies of cities that were as much Asiatic and African as European, while those on Bukhara, Lhasa, Delhi, Singapore, Kuala Lampur and Tokyo highlight an alternative cosmopolitanism in Asian cities amid comflict and violence.In addition to the famous question, who has the right to the city, The Other Global City asks, do cities have rights? Seeking a way to re-imagine the global city, the present volume should be required reading for anthropologists, sociologists, urbanists and planners and will also be of interest to the general reader.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Other Global City. To get started finding The Other Global City, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 258

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Yoda Press

Release: 2013

ISBN: 938040316X

Description: “Global cities” are generally exclusively defined by flows of global capital. This narrow conception of global urbanity invalidates cities such as Byzantium-Constantinople-Istanbul which has been a global city for over fifteen centuries, Abbasid Baghdad that once was a global city for science, and Bombay which has long claimed to be a global city for cinema and the arts.The present volume attempts to redress the balance. It contends that thinking about the city in the longue duree and as part of a network of regions, contests both imperial and nationalist ways of reading cities. In doing so, it looks at what recent literature overlooks, presents neglected counter-cartographies and foregrounds subaltern cosmopolitanisms. Chapters on Istanbul, Beirut and Cairo present counter-cartographies of cities that were as much Asiatic and African as European, while those on Bukhara, Lhasa, Delhi, Singapore, Kuala Lampur and Tokyo highlight an alternative cosmopolitanism in Asian cities amid comflict and violence.In addition to the famous question, who has the right to the city, The Other Global City asks, do cities have rights? Seeking a way to re-imagine the global city, the present volume should be required reading for anthropologists, sociologists, urbanists and planners and will also be of interest to the general reader.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Other Global City. To get started finding The Other Global City, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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