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Acknowledgements
Imagining Cities, Sallie Westwood and John Williams
Part I: Theorising Cities
1. Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis, Edward W. Soja
2. Imagining the Real-Time City: Telecommunications, Urban Paradigms and the Future of Cities, Stephen Graham
3. Chaotic Places or Complex Places? Cities in a Post-Industrial Era, David Byrne
Part II: Racial/Spatial Imaginaries
4. Out of the Melting Pot Into the Fire Next Time: Imagining the East End as City, Body, Text, Phil Cohen
5. White Governmentality: Urbanism, Nationalism, Racism, Barnor Hesse
6. Migrant Spaces and Settlers’ Time: Forming and De-Forming an Inner City, Max Farrar
Part III: Nostalgia/Memory
7. Looking Backward, Nostalgia and the City, Elizabeth Wilson
8. Authenticity and Suburbia, David Chaney
9. ‘Proper Little Mesters’: Nostalgia and Protest Masculinity and De-Industrialised Sheffield, Ian Taylor and Ruth Jamieson
Part IV: Narrating Cityscapes
10. This, Here, Now: Imagining the Modern City, James Donald
11. (Re)Placing the City: Cultural Relocation and the City as Centre, Tim Hall
12. Anglicising the American Dream: Tragedy, Farce and the ‘Postmodern’ City, Julie Charlesworth and Allan Cochrane
Part V: Virtual Cities
13. Cyberpunk as Social Theory: William Gibson and the Sociological Imagination, Roger Burrows
14. Cities, Subjectivity and Cyberspace, Graham B. McBeath and Stephen A. Webb
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Sallie Westwood, John M Williams
