LEADER 04214nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910779474903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89905-1 010 $a0-8122-0805-6 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812208054 035 $a(CKB)2550000000707699 035 $a(EBL)3441886 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000726898 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11483248 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000726898 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10684808 035 $a(PQKB)10054920 035 $a(OCoLC)821735575 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse21376 035 $a(DE-B1597)449585 035 $a(OCoLC)979684962 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812208054 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441886 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642221 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421155 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441886 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000707699 100 $a20110608d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aGlobal downtowns$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by Marina Peterson and Gary W. McDonogh 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (368 p.) 225 1 $aCity in the twenty-first century 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8122-2322-5 311 $a0-8122-4384-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [311]-343) and index. 327 $apt. 1. Imagination -- pt. 2. Consumption -- pt. 3. Conflict. 330 $aGlobal Downtowns reconsiders one of the defining features of urban life-the energy and exuberance that characterize downtown areas-within a framework of contemporary globalization and change. It analyzes the iconic centers of global cities through individual case studies from Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the United States, considering issues of function, population, imagery, and growth. Contributors to the volume use ethnographic and cultural analysis to identify downtowns as products of the activities of planners, power elites, and consumers and as zones of conflict and competition. Whether claiming space on a world stage through architecture, media events, or historical tourism or facing the claims of different social groups for a place at the center, downtowns embody the heritage of the modern city and its future.Essays draw on extensive fieldwork and archival study in Beijing, Barcelona, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dar es Salaam, Dubai, Nashville, Lima, Philadelphia, Mumbai, Havana, Beirut, and Paris, among other cities. They examine the visions of planners and developers, cultural producers, governments, theoreticians, immigrants, and outcasts. Through these perspectives, the book explores questions of space and place, consumption, mediation, and images as well as the processes by which urban elites learn from each other as well as contest local hegemony.Global Downtowns raises important questions for those who work with issues of urban centrality in governance, planning, investment, preservation, and social reform. The volume insists that however important the narratives of individual spaces-theories of American downtowns, images of global souks, or diasporic formations of ethnic enclaves as interconnected nodes-they also must be situated within a larger, dynamic framework of downtowns as centers of modern urban imagination. 410 0$aCity in the twenty-first century book series. 606 $aCity planning$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCentral business districts 606 $aUrban anthropology 606 $aCulture and globalization 610 $aGeneral. 610 $aSocial Science. 610 $aUrban Studies. 615 0$aCity planning$xHistory 615 0$aCentral business districts. 615 0$aUrban anthropology. 615 0$aCulture and globalization. 676 $a307.3/4209 701 $aMcDonogh$b Gary W$0249467 701 $aPeterson$b Marina$0328235 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779474903321 996 $aGlobal downtowns$93712094 997 $aUNINA