Circulation and the city essays on urban culture

Straw, Will, 1954- (Added Author). Boutros, Alexandra, 1971- (Added Author).

Summary: 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 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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ISBN: 0773536655
ISBN: 9780773536654
ISBN: 0773536647
ISBN: 9780773536647
ISBN: 0773581014 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780773581012 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 306 p.)
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Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:jun.14 Multi-user. Multi-User. Terms of use -
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-302) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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
Language Note:	Includes some text in French and German.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.