Michael Peter Smith, Thomas Bender

City and Nation (eBook, ePUB)

Rethinking Place and Identity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. It draws on a wide range of disciplines, including literature, planning and sociology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351320221
• Artikelnr.: 50409523

Autorenporträt

Michael Peter Smith, Thomas Bender

Inhaltsangabe

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