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UNINA9910461590503321 |
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Titolo |
Circulation and the city [[electronic resource] ] : essays on urban culture / / edited by Alexandra Boutros and Will Straw |
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Montreal ; ; Ithaca [N.Y.], : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-53036-8 |
9786613842817 |
0-7735-8101-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (313 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BoutrosAlexandra <1971-> |
StrawWill <1954-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Sociology, Urban |
Sociology, Urban - Québec (Province) - Montréal |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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; Introduction / Alexandra Boutros and Will Straw -- The mobile city -- Language in the city, language of the city / Michael Darroch -- Telepathically urban / Jennifer Gabrys -- The imaginary of self-satisfaction : reflections on the platitude of the "creative city" / Alan Blum -- City Traffic. Absence, "removal," and everyday life in the diasporic city -- Anti-detention/deportation activism in Montreal / Jenny Burman -- The spirit of traffic : navigating faith in the city / Alexandra Boutros -- The ephemeral stage at Lionel Groulx Station / Amanda Boetzkes -- Cities of rhythm and revolution / tobias c. van Veen -- City circuits. Spectacles of waste / Will Straw -- Places of global shape : the world consumption in divided Berlin / Alexander Sedlmaier and Barthold Pelzer -- Modern heroics -- the Flâneur in Adolfo Bioy Casares's El sueño de los héroes / Amanda Holmes -- Temple bar, density and circulation -- the city as a terrain of many voices / Kieran Bonner. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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As urban dwellers travel to work, home and play they carve random or predictable pathways across neighbourhoods and districts. This book investigates the urban capacity for movement, the city as a space of |
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circulation, by taking into account not only the physical displacement of people, but also the circulation of cultures, things, and ideas. |
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