For millennia, the city stood out against the landscape, walled and
compact. This concept of the city was long accepted as adequate for
characterizing the urban experience. However, the nature of the
city, both real and imagined, has always been more permeable than
this model reveals. The essays in Urban Imaginaries respond to this
condition by focusing on how social and physical space is conceived
as both indefinite and singular. They emphasize the ways this space
is shared and thus made into urban culture. Urban Imaginaries
offers case studies on cities in Brazil, Israel, Turkey, Lebanon,
and India, as well as in the United States and France, and in doing
so blends social, cultural, and political approaches to better
understand the contemporary urban experience. Contributors:
Margaret Cohen, Stanford U; Camilla Fojas, De Paul U; Beatriz
Jaguaribe, Federal U of Rio de Janeiro; Anthony D. King, SUNY
Binghamton; Mark LeVine, U of California, Irvine; Srirupa Roy, U of
Massachusetts, Amherst; Seteney Shami, Social Science Research
Council; AbdouMaliq Simone, New School U; Maha Yahya; Deniz
Yukseker, Koc U, Istanbul. Alev Cinar is associate professor of
political science and public administration at Bilkent University,
Turkey. Thomas Bender is university professor of the humanities and
history at New York University.
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