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Title Circulation and the city [electronic resource] : essays on urban culture / edited by Alexandra Boutros and Will Straw.

Imprint Montreal ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description vi, 306 p.
Series Culture of cities
Culture of cities.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Alexandra Boutros and Will Straw -- The mobile city -- Language in the city, language of the city / Michael Darroch -- Telepathically urban / Jennifer Gabrys -- The imaginary of self-satisfaction : reflections on the platitude of the "creative city" / Alan Blum -- City Traffic. Absence, "removal," and everyday life in the diasporic city -- Anti-detention/deportation activism in Montreal / Jenny Burman -- The spirit of traffic : navigating faith in the city / Alexandra Boutros -- The ephemeral stage at Lionel Groulx Station / Amanda Boetzkes -- Cities of rhythm and revolution / tobias c. van Veen -- City circuits. Spectacles of waste / Will Straw -- Places of global shape : the world consumption in divided Berlin / Alexander Sedlmaier and Barthold Pelzer -- Modern heroics -- the Flaneur in Adolfo Bioy Casares's El sueno de los heroes / Amanda Holmes -- Temple bar, density and circulation -- the city as a terrain of many voices / Kieran Bonner.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Language Includes some text in French and German.
Subject Sociology, Urban.
Sociology, Urban -- Quebec (Province) -- Montreal.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Boutros, Alexandra, 1971-
Straw, Will, 1954-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780773536647 (bound)
9780773536654 (pbk.)
9780773581012 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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