{"product_id":"other-cities-other-worlds-9780822342717","title":"Other Cities Other Worlds","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eOther Cities, Other Worlds \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.”—\u003cb\u003eDavid Theo Goldberg\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Racial State\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eOther Cities, Other Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e 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.’”—\u003cb\u003eGeorge E. Marcus\u003c\/b\u003e, co-author of \u003ci\u003eDesigns for an Anthropology of the Contemporary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”—\u003cb\u003eAnthony Vidler\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eHistories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: World Cultures, World Cities \/ Andreas Huyssen 1\u003cbr\u003e Latin America \u003cbr\u003e Cultural Landscapes: Buenos Aires from Integration to Fracture \/ Beatriz Sarlo 27\u003cbr\u003e From Modernism to Neoliberalism in São Paulo: Reconfiguring the City and Its Citizens \/ Teresa P. R. Caldeira 51\u003cbr\u003e Mexico City, 2010: Improvising Globalization \/ Néstor García Canclini 79\u003cbr\u003e Africa \u003cbr\u003e The Last Shall Be First: African Urbanites and the Larger Urban World \/ AbdouMaliq Simone 99\u003cbr\u003e Unsettling Johannesburg: The Country in the City \/ Hilton Judin 121\u003cbr\u003e Mega-exhibitions: The Antinomies of a Transnational Global Form \/ Okwui Enwezor 147\u003cbr\u003e Asia \u003cbr\u003e Mumbai: The Modern City in Ruins \/ Gyan Prakash 181\u003cbr\u003e Negotiating the Static and Kinetic Cities: The Emergent Urbanism of Mumbai \/ Rahul Mehrotra 205\u003cbr\u003e Remapping Beijing: Polylocality, Globalization, Cinema \/ Yingjin Zhang 219\u003cbr\u003e Faking Globalization \/ Ackbar Abbas 243\u003cbr\u003e Middle East \u003cbr\u003e Two Dreams in a Global City: Class and Space in Urban Egypt \/ Farha Ghannam 267\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHüzün—Melancholy—Tristesse\u003c\/i\u003e of Istanbul \/ Orhan Pamuk 289\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 307\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 321\u003cbr\u003e Index 325","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406052106583,"sku":"9780822342717","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822342717.jpg?v=1730494368","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/other-cities-other-worlds-9780822342717","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}