{"product_id":"global-downtowns-paperback-softback-9780812223224","title":"Global Downtowns (Paperback \/ softback) 9780812223224","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eGlobal Downtowns\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMarina Peterson (Edited by), Gary McDonogh (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812223224\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 19 November 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages, 13 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.618 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eGlobal Downtowns\u003c\/i\u003e succeeds brilliantly in its quest to unpack the complexities of downtown creation (and recreation) in global (and globalizing) cities, and it should be of lively interest to urban scholars, senior undergraduates and Masters-level urban studies students, and to urbanists more generally.\"-\u003ci\u003eJournal of Regional Science\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlobal Downtowns\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEssays 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlobal Downtowns\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Globalizing Downtown\u003cbr\u003e -Gary W. McDonogh and Marina Peterson\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART I. IMAGINATION\u003cbr\u003e 1. Toward a Genealogy of Downtowns\u003cbr\u003e -Robert Rotenberg\u003cbr\u003e 2. From Peking to Beijing: Production of Centrality in the Global Age\u003cbr\u003e -Xuefei Ren\u003cbr\u003e 3. Simulations of Barcelona: Urban Projects in Port Spaces (1981- 2002)\u003cbr\u003e -Francesc MagrinyÀ and Gaspar Maza\u003cbr\u003e 4. Urbanist Ideology and the Production of Space in the United Arab Emirates: An Anthropological Critique\u003cbr\u003e -Ahmed Kanna\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART II. CONSUMPTION\u003cbr\u003e 5. Reaching for Dubai: Nashville Dreams of a Twenty-First-Century Skyline\u003cbr\u003e -Richard Lloyd and Brian D. Christens\u003cbr\u003e 6. From National Utopia to Elite Enclave: \"Economic Realities\" and Resistance in the Reconstruction of Beirut\u003cbr\u003e -Najib Hourani\u003cbr\u003e 7. When the Film Festival Comes to (Down)Town: Transnational Circuits, Tourism, and the Urban Economy of Images\u003cbr\u003e -William Cunningham Bissell\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Future of the Past: World Heritage, National Identity, and Urban Centrality in Late Socialist Cuba\u003cbr\u003e -Matthew J. Hill\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART III. CONFLICT\u003cbr\u003e 9. Utopia\/Dystopia: Art and Downtown Development in Los Angeles\u003cbr\u003e -Marina Peterson\u003cbr\u003e 10. \"Slum-Free Mumbai\" and Other Entrepreneurial Strategies in the Making of Mumbai's Global Downtown\u003cbr\u003e -Liza Weinstein\u003cbr\u003e 11. Downtown as Brand, Downtown as Land: Urban Elites and Neoliberal Development in Contemporary New York City\u003cbr\u003e -Julian Brash\u003cbr\u003e 12. Beside Downtown: Global Chinatown\u003cbr\u003e -Gary W. McDonogh and Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555690606872,"sku":"9780812223224","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/global-downtowns-paperback-softback-9780812223224","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}