Description
Book SynopsisOffers a look at non-Western global cities. This work focuses on urban imaginaries, the way that city dwellers perceive or imagine their own cities. It analyzes the effects of global processes such as the growth of transnational corporations and investment, the weakening of state sovereignty, and the privatization of previously public services.
Trade Review“
Other Cities, Other Worlds is interdisciplinary in the best sense of the term. Architects and architectural historians and critics, art curators, anthropologists, cultural analysts and social theorists, historians and sociologists speak to and through each other, relating older urban forms to emergent ones, drawing on contemporary critical theory developed in the metropoles but put to new work. This book will affect how we think of globalization itself, as not just a top-down linear form of development and displacement but a far more complex set of interactions that the contributors do a very good job of beginning to comprehend.”—
David Theo Goldberg, author of
The Racial State“
Other Cities, Other Worlds offers quite brilliant and absorbing accounts of urban imaginaries in major cities outside the West. This is not just another globalization book but one of real distinction about contemporary urban life ‘elsewhere.’”—
George E. Marcus, co-author of
Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary“This in-depth and wide-ranging study of the results of urban development in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East points not only to the radical transformations effected by the globalization of neoliberal capitalism but also to their fundamentally different effects on culture, city-form, and daily life, a mark of the ‘local’ in the ‘global.’ Written by experts in their respective fields and geographical areas, this unique collection of essays is unified by the editorial guidance provided by Andreas Huyssen, who has adroitly organized the book as a primer in the cultural analysis of worldwide economic transformation.”—
Anthony Vidler, author of
Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction: World Cultures, World Cities / Andreas Huyssen 1
Latin America
Cultural Landscapes: Buenos Aires from Integration to Fracture / Beatriz Sarlo 27
From Modernism to Neoliberalism in São Paulo: Reconfiguring the City and Its Citizens / Teresa P. R. Caldeira 51
Mexico City, 2010: Improvising Globalization / Néstor García Canclini 79
Africa
The Last Shall Be First: African Urbanites and the Larger Urban World / AbdouMaliq Simone 99
Unsettling Johannesburg: The Country in the City / Hilton Judin 121
Mega-exhibitions: The Antinomies of a Transnational Global Form / Okwui Enwezor 147
Asia
Mumbai: The Modern City in Ruins / Gyan Prakash 181
Negotiating the Static and Kinetic Cities: The Emergent Urbanism of Mumbai / Rahul Mehrotra 205
Remapping Beijing: Polylocality, Globalization, Cinema / Yingjin Zhang 219
Faking Globalization / Ackbar Abbas 243
Middle East
Two Dreams in a Global City: Class and Space in Urban Egypt / Farha Ghannam 267
Hüzün—Melancholy—Tristesse of Istanbul / Orhan Pamuk 289
Bibliography 307
Contributors 321
Index 325
