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City and Nation Rethinking Place and Identity
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
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This compendium offers a textured historical and comparative examination of the significance of locality or "place," and the role of urban representations and spatial practices in defining national identities. Drawing upon a wide range of disciplines - from literature to architecture and planning, sociology, and history - these essays problematize the dynamic between the local and the national,... Read more
1: The Localization of Modernity; 2: Violence of Categories: Urban Design and the Making of Indonesian Modernity; 3: Stability in Flux: The Ambivalence of State, Ethnicity and Class in the Forging of Modern Urban Malaysia 1; 4: The Local Articulation of Nationality: The Value of Historicity and “National Essence” in Republican China’s Urban Modernity; 5: The State, The Gty and The Priest: Political Participation and Conflict Resolution in Independence-Era Central America; 6: Cosmopolitan Topographies of Paris: Citing Balzac; 7: Mexican Past and Mexican Presence in San Antonio’s Market Square: Capital, Tourism and die Creation of the Local
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Michael Peter Smith, Thomas Bender
