Cosmopolitan Urbanism
Published by: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415344920
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 259
ISBN: 9780415344920
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 259
Book Summary
In order to attract investment and tourism, cities are increasingly competing to re-brand themselves as cosmopolitan, and in recent years, cosmopolitanism has become the focus of considerable critical attention in academia. Here, renowned editors and contributors have come together to produce one of the first books to tackle cosmopolitanism from a geographical perspective.Central to the cosmopolitan process is how traditionally marginalized groups have become re-valued and reconstructed as a resource in the eyes of planners and politicians. This fascinating book examines the politics of these transformations by understanding the everyday practices of cosmopolitanism. Which forms of cultural difference are valued and which are excluded from this re-visioning of the contemporary city? Organized in three distinct parts, the book covers:
production and consumption, and cosmopolitanism
the spatialities of cosmopolitanism
the deployment, mobilization and articulation of cosmopolitan discourses in policy-making and urban design.
The volume is groundbreaking in examining the complex politics of cosmopolitanism in empirical case studies from Montreal to Singapore, London to Texas, Auckland to Amsterdam. With a strong editorial steer, including general and section introductions and a conclusion to guide the student reader, Cosmopolitan Urbanism employs a range of theoretical and empirical approaches to provide a grounded treatment essential for students of human geography, urban studies and sociology.
LIST OF READINGS
Introduction: Grounding Cosmopolitan Urbanism: Approaches, Practices and Policies
Jon Binnie, Julian Holloway, Steve MillingtonID: s118409 | 34pp | Copyright Fee: $4.08
Source Title: Cosmopolitan Urbanism
Cosmopolitan Urbanism: a Love Song to Our Mongrel Cities
Leonie SandercockID: s118411 | 16pp | Copyright Fee: $1.92
Source Title: Cosmopolitan Urbanism
The Paradox of Cosmopolitan Urbanism: Rationality, Difference and the Circuits of Cultural Capital
Gary BridgeID: s118412 | 17pp | Copyright Fee: $2.04
Source Title: Cosmopolitan Urbanism
Strangers in the Cosmopolis
Kurt IvesonID: s118413 | 17pp | Copyright Fee: $2.04
Source Title: Cosmopolitan Urbanism
Sociality and the Cosmopolitan Imagination: National, Cosmopolitan and Local Imaginaries in Auckland, New Zealand
Alan LathamID: s118415 | 23pp | Copyright Fee: $2.76
Source Title: Cosmopolitan Urbanism
Cosmopolitanism By Default: Public Sociability in Montréal
Annick Germain, Martha RadiceID: s118416 | 18pp | Copyright Fee: $2.16
Source Title: Cosmopolitan Urbanism
Cosmopolitan Camouflage: (Post-)Gay Space in Spitalfields, East London
Gavin BrownID: s118417 | 16pp | Copyright Fee: $1.92
Source Title: Cosmopolitan Urbanism
Negotiating Cosmopolitanism in Singapore's Fictional Landscape
Serene Tan, Brenda S. A. YeohID: s118418 | 22pp | Copyright Fee: $2.64
Source Title: Cosmopolitan Urbanism
Multicultural Urban Space and the Cosmopolitan 'Other': the Contested Revitalization of Amsterdam'S Bijlmermeer
Annemarie BodaarID: s118420 | 16pp | Copyright Fee: $1.92
Source Title: Cosmopolitan Urbanism
Working-Class Subjects in the Cosmopolitan City
Chris HaylettID: s118421 | 17pp | Copyright Fee: $2.04
Source Title: Cosmopolitan Urbanism


