Introduction: The city : experience, imagination, and place / Alev Cinar and Thomas Bender
Boundaries, networks, and cities : playing and replaying diasporas and histories / Anthony D. King
Economy and gender in the urban borderland : the public culture of Laleli, Istanbul / Deniz Yukseker
Borderlined in the global city (of angels) / Camilla Fojas
Modernity on the waterfront : the case of Haussmann's Paris / Margaret Cohen
Assembling Douala : imagining forms of urban sociality / AbdouMaliq Simone
Cities without maps : favelas and the aesthetics of realism / Beatriz Jaguaribe
Fateful triangles : modernity and its antinomies in a Mediterranean port city / Mark LeVine
The imagined community as urban reality : the making of Ankara / Alev Cinar
Urban space, national time, and postcolonial difference : the steel towns of India / Srirupa Roy
"Amman is not a city" : Middle Eastern cities in question / Seteney Shami
Let the dead be dead : communal imaginaries and national narratives in the post-civil war reconstruction of Beirut / Maha Yahya
Conclusion: Reflections on the culture of urban modernity / Thomas Bender.
Urban imaginaries : locating the modern city. ISBN 9780816648023. Published by University of Minnesota Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.