Other cities, other worlds : urban imaginaries in a globalizing age / edited by Andreas Huyssen. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2008. - viii, 327 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

"The essays that make up this volume were first presented as formal lectures in a year-long graduate research seminar in 2001-2002 at Columbia University"--P. [vii]. Includes bibliographical refrences and index

1.-- Latin America Beatriz Sarlo, Cultural Landscapes: Buenos Aires from Integration to Fracture 000 Teresa P. R. Caldeira, From Modernism to Neoliberalism in S¿o Paulo: Reconfiguring the City and Its Citizens 000 N¿stor Garc«a Canclini, Mexico City, 2010: Improvising Globalization 000 2.-- Africa AbdouMaliq Simone, The Last Shall Be First: African Urbanities and the Larger Urban World 000 Hilton Judin, Unsettling Johannesburg: The Country in the City 000 Okwui Enwezor, Mega-exhibitions: The Antinomies of a Transnational Global Form 000 3.-- Asia Gyan Prakash, Mumbai: The Modern City in Ruins 000 Rahul Mehrotra, Negotiating the Static and Kinetic Cities: The Emergent Urbanism of 4.-- Mumbai 000 Yingjin Zhang, Remapping Beijing: Polylocality, Globalization, Cinema 000 Ackbar Abbas, Faking Globalization 000 Middle East Farha Ghannam, Two Dreams in a Global City: Class and Space in Urban 5.-- Egypt 000 Orhan Pamuk, HÄzÄn_Melancholy_Tristesse of Istanbul 000 --Bibliography 000 --Contributors 000 --Index 000

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Cities and towns--Developing countries.
Urbanization--Developing countries.
Urban geography--Developing countries.
Globalization--Social aspects--Developing countries.

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