Introduction
Spatial imaginaries
Streets, imaginaries and modernity: Vienna is not Berlin / David Frisby
The global spaces of Los Angeles, 1920s-1930s / Philip J. Ethington
Architecture at the ends of empire: urban reflections between Algiers and Marseilles / Sheila Crane
The city in fragments: kaleidoscopic Johannesburg after apartheid / Martin Murray
Spatial politics
Violence and spatial politics between the local and imperial: Baghdad 1778-1802 / Dina Rizk Khoury
From the lettered city to the sellers' city: vendor politics and public space in urban Mexico, 1880-1926 / Christina M. Jiménez
The city as theater of protest: West Berlin and West Germany, 1962-83 / Belinda Davis
Nuestro pueblo: the spatial and cultural politics of Los Angeles' Watts Towers
Spaces of everyday life / Sarah Schrank
Morality, majesty, and murder in 1950s London: metropolitan culture and English modernity / Frank Mort
(Re)Imagining an African city: performing culture, arts and citizenship in Dakar (Senegal) 1980-2000 / Mamadou Diouf
A utopia of fragments: street observation science and the Tokyo economic bubble, 1986-1990 / Jordan Sand
Spectacle and death in the city of Bombay cinema / Ranjani Mazumdar
Index
Illustrations.
The spaces of the modern city : imaginaries, politics, and everyday life. ISBN 9780691133430. Published by Princeton University Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.