How are we to make meaning from cities at the beginning of the new millennium?
Are cities still emblematic of wider social and cultural changes in the world we now live in?
What kinds of cities, and with what kinds of citizens, do we see ahead?
Where are both productive and destructive forces pushing our images and experiences of the city?
City Visions focusses on contemporary issues in city cultures and urban politics. With contributions from internationally renowned scholars, the book ranges from discussions of the city in contemporary works of fiction to critiques of urban policies and explorations of the experiences of being in the city. Each chapter seeks to explore representational, theoretical and experiential elements of the contemporary city, and whether focusing on particular urban practices - tourism, dancing, 'hanging around' - particular spaces - streets, city centres, ruins - or particular theoretical perspectives - postmodernism, ethics, postcolonialism - each chapter brings to light its own city and its own vision. Taken together the essays suggest exciting new agendas for thinking and talking about cities. David Bell teaches Cultural Studies at Staffordshire University. Azzedine Haddour lectures in French and Cultural Studies at University College London.
Edited by:
David Bell,
Azzedine Haddour
Imprint: Prentice-Hall
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 155mm,
Width: 234mm,
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 786g
ISBN: 9780582327412
ISBN 10: 0582327415
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 15 March 2000
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgements. Notes on Contributors 1. What We Talk About When We Talk About the City 2. Imag(in)ing a Post-Industrial Potteries 3. Capital Calcutta: Coins, Maps, Monuments, Souvenirs, and Tourism 4. Citing Difference; Vagrancy, Nomadism, and the Site of the Colonial and Post-colonial 5. Denizens, Citizens, Tourists, and Others; Marginality and Mobility in the Writings of James Kelman and Irvine Welsh. 6. Suburban Tales: Television, Masculinity and Textual Geographies 7. Ethical Transgressions Beyond the City Wall 8. Dancing Bodies in City Settings: Construction of Spaces and Subjects 9. Moving Through the City 10. Finding a Place in the Street: CCTV, Surveillance and Young People's Use of Urban Public Space 11. Cosmopolitan and the Sexed City 12. The New Segregation 13. A Critique of Integration as the Remedy for Segregation 14. Otherness and Citizenship: Towards a Politics of the Plurals Community 15. 'Not a Straight Line but a Curve', or Cities are not Mirrors of Modernity.
David Bell, Azzedine Haddour
