Marina Peterson is Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University and author of Sound, Space, and the City: Civic Performance in Downtown Los Angeles, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Gary McDonogh is Professor in the Growth and the Structure of Cities program at Bryn Mawr College. He has written and edited many books, most recently Iberian Worlds.
Marina Peterson is Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University and author of Sound, Space, and the City: Civic Performance in Downtown Los Angeles, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Gary McDonogh is Professor in the Growth and the Structure of Cities program at Bryn Mawr College. He has written and edited many books, most recently Iberian Worlds.
Marina Peterson is Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University and author of Sound, Space, and the City: Civic Performance in Downtown Los Angeles, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Gary McDonogh is Professor in the Growth and the Structure of Cities program at Bryn Mawr College. He has written and edited many books, most recently Iberian Worlds.
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Introduction: Globalizing Downtown -Gary W. McDonogh and Marina Peterson PART I. IMAGINATION 1. Toward a Genealogy of Downtowns -Robert Rotenberg 2. From Peking to Beijing: Production of Centrality in the Global Age -Xuefei Ren 3. Simulations of Barcelona: Urban Projects in Port Spaces (1981- 2002) -Francesc Magrinyà and Gaspar Maza 4. Urbanist Ideology and the Production of Space in the United Arab Emirates: An Anthropological Critique -Ahmed Kanna PART II. CONSUMPTION 5. Reaching for Dubai: Nashville Dreams of a Twenty-First-Century Skyline -Richard Lloyd and Brian D. Christens 6. From National Utopia to Elite Enclave: "Economic Realities" and Resistance in the Reconstruction of Beirut -Najib Hourani 7. When the Film Festival Comes to (Down)Town: Transnational Circuits, Tourism, and the Urban Economy of Images -William Cunningham Bissell 8. The Future of the Past: World Heritage, National Identity, and Urban Centrality in Late Socialist Cuba -Matthew J. Hill PART III. CONFLICT 9. Utopia/Dystopia: Art and Downtown Development in Los Angeles -Marina Peterson 10. "Slum-Free Mumbai" and Other Entrepreneurial Strategies in the Making of Mumbai's Global Downtown -Liza Weinstein 11. Downtown as Brand, Downtown as Land: Urban Elites and Neoliberal Development in Contemporary New York City -Julian Brash 12. Beside Downtown: Global Chinatown -Gary W. McDonogh and Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong Notes Bibliography List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments
Introduction: Globalizing Downtown -Gary W. McDonogh and Marina Peterson PART I. IMAGINATION 1. Toward a Genealogy of Downtowns -Robert Rotenberg 2. From Peking to Beijing: Production of Centrality in the Global Age -Xuefei Ren 3. Simulations of Barcelona: Urban Projects in Port Spaces (1981- 2002) -Francesc Magrinyà and Gaspar Maza 4. Urbanist Ideology and the Production of Space in the United Arab Emirates: An Anthropological Critique -Ahmed Kanna PART II. CONSUMPTION 5. Reaching for Dubai: Nashville Dreams of a Twenty-First-Century Skyline -Richard Lloyd and Brian D. Christens 6. From National Utopia to Elite Enclave: "Economic Realities" and Resistance in the Reconstruction of Beirut -Najib Hourani 7. When the Film Festival Comes to (Down)Town: Transnational Circuits, Tourism, and the Urban Economy of Images -William Cunningham Bissell 8. The Future of the Past: World Heritage, National Identity, and Urban Centrality in Late Socialist Cuba -Matthew J. Hill PART III. CONFLICT 9. Utopia/Dystopia: Art and Downtown Development in Los Angeles -Marina Peterson 10. "Slum-Free Mumbai" and Other Entrepreneurial Strategies in the Making of Mumbai's Global Downtown -Liza Weinstein 11. Downtown as Brand, Downtown as Land: Urban Elites and Neoliberal Development in Contemporary New York City -Julian Brash 12. Beside Downtown: Global Chinatown -Gary W. McDonogh and Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong Notes Bibliography List of Contributors Index Acknowledgments
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