The city cultures reader / edited by Malcolm Miles, Iain Borden, and Tim Hall.

List of plates -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction to the Second Edition -- Pt. 1. What is a City? -- The Metropolis and Mental Life -- The Growth of the City: An Introduction to a Research Project -- What is a City? -- The Hotel Lobby -- World Cities -- Pt. 2. What is Culture? -- Metropolitan Perceptions and the Emergence of Modernism -- The Affirmative Character of Culture -- The Art Museum as Ritual -- Separation Perfected -- Globalised Culture: The Triumph of the West? -- Pt. 3. Symbolic Economies -- The Production of Belief: Contribution to an Economy of Symbolic Goods -- Opening up Public Art's Spaces: Art, Regeneration and Audience -- Fragments of a Metropolitan Viewpoint -- The World in a Shopping Mall -- Justice, Politics, and the Creation of Urban Space -- Pt. 4. The Culture Industry -- The Culture Industry Reconsidered -- Reinterpreting Local Culture -- Barcelona: The Making of a Cultural City -- Difference, Boundaries, Community: The Irish in Britain -- Out of Order: The Public Art Machine -- Pt. 5. Cultures and Technologies -- The City and the Car -- The Social and Cultural Life of the City -- The People's Radio of Vila Nossa Senhora Aparecida: Alternative Communication and Cultures of Resistance in Brazil -- Posthuman Unbounded: Artificial Evolution and High-tech Subcultures -- Electronic Civil Disobedience -- Pt. 6. Everyday Lives -- Plan of the Present Work -- Railway Navigation and Incarceration -- Home in the Weeds -- Tango: A Choreography of Urban Displacement -- A Performative Critique of the City: The Urban Practice of Skateboarding, 1958-98 -- Pt. 7. Contesting Identity -- Space, Place and Gender -- Social Movements and the Politics of Difference -- World Alienation and the Modern Age: The Deprivations of Obscurity -- Changing the Public Space: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo -- Re-imagining the Global: Relocation and Local Identities in Cairo -- Pt. 8. Boundaries and Transgressions -- The Dirt of Cities, the Aura of Cities, the Smell of the Dead, Utopia of an Odorless City -- Border Crossings -- Engendering Race Research: Unsettling the Self-Other Dichotomy -- A Chance to Live -- New Urbanism and its Discontents -- Pt. 9. Utopias and Dystopias -- The Political Theory of Utopia: From Melancholia to Nostalgia -- Ernst Bloch and the Ubiquity of Utopia -- Uneven Development: Public Art in New York City -- The Death of Radical Planning: Radical Praxis for a Postmodern Age -- Cafe-Extra: Culture, Representation and the Everyday -- Pt. 10. Possible Futures -- Exopolis: The Restructuring of Urban Form -- Environmental Justice and the Sustainable City -- The Urban Poor: An Invisible Resource -- Viva Loisaida Libre -- Architecture Co-generated with Poetry, because the Word is Inaugural, it Conveys, it Gives Birth -- Illustration credits -- Copyright information -- Index.

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