By United Nations estimates, 60 percent of the world's
population will be urban by 2030. With the increasing speed of
urbanization, especially in the developing world, scholars are now
rethinking standard concepts and histories of modern cities. "The
Spaces of the Modern City" historicizes the contemporary discussion
of urbanism, highlighting the local and global breadth of the city
landscape.
This interdisciplinary collection examines how the city develops
in the interactions of space and imagination. The essays focus on
issues such as street design in Vienna, the motion picture industry
in Los Angeles, architecture in Marseilles and Algiers, and the
kaleidoscopic paradox of post-apartheid Johannesburg. They explore
the nature of spatial politics, examining the disparate worlds of
eighteenth-century Baghdad, nineteenth-century Morelia, Cold
War-era West Berlin, and postwar Los Angeles. They also show the
meaning of everyday spaces to urban life, illuminating issues such
as crime in metropolitan London, youth culture in Dakar, "memory
projects" in Tokyo, and Bombay cinema. Informed by a range of
theoretical writings, this collection offers a fresh and truly
global perspective on the nature of the modern city.
The contributors are Sheila Crane, Belinda Davis, Mamadou
Diouf, Philip J. Ethington, David Frisby, Christina M. Jimenez,
Dina Rizk Khoury, Ranjani Mazumdar, Frank Mort, Martin Murray,
Jordan Sand, and Sarah Schrank."
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