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OverviewGlobal Downtowns 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. Essays 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. Global Downtowns 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Marina Peterson , Gary McDonoghPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.599kg ISBN: 9780812223224ISBN 10: 0812223225 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 19 November 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"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"ReviewsGlobal Downtowns 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. -Journal of Regional Science """Global Downtowns 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."" * <i>Journal of Regional Science</i> *" Author InformationMarina 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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