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Urban enigmas : Montreal, Toronto, and the problem of comparing cities / edited by Johanne Sloan.
- Title
- Urban enigmas : Montreal, Toronto, and the problem of comparing cities / edited by Johanne Sloan.
- Publication
- Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2007.
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- Additional Authors
- Sloan, Johanne
- Description
- xi, 298 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The practice of comparison is implicit in every act of imagining, representing, and studying urban experience. Urban Enigmas contributes to recent interdisciplinary interest in cities by introducing comparison as a key methodology for urban cultural analysis.
- Series Statement
- Culture of cities project series
- Uniform Title
- Culture of cities.
- Subject
- Arts and society > Toronto
- Arts and society > Montréal
- Sociology, Urban > Toronto
- Sociology, Urban > Montréal
- Cultural pluralism > Toronto
- Cultural pluralism > Montréal
- Arts et société > Toronto
- Arts et société > Montréal
- Sociologie urbaine > Toronto
- Sociologie urbaine > Montréal
- Pluralisme > Toronto
- Pluralisme > Montréal
- Toronto (Ont.) > Social conditions
- Montréal (Québec) > Social conditions
- Toronto (Ont.) > Conditions sociales
- Montréal (Québec) > Conditions sociales
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Comparing cities : on the mutual honouring of peculiarities / Alan Blum -- Comparing the cultures of cities : epistemological perspectives on the concept of metropolis from the cultural sciences / Jean-François Coté -- "To squeeze a single sentence out" : estrangement and disenchantment in Benjamin's "Marseilles" / Kevin Dowler -- The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi : staging polyphony in Montreal and Toronto / Michael Darroch and Jean-François Morissette -- Imagine-nation in the city : seriocomedy and local democracy / Greg M. Nielsen -- Ethnicity, social organization, and urban space : a comparison of Italians in Toronto and Montreal / Nicholas Demaria Harney -- At home on the street : public art in Montreal and Toronto / Johanne Sloan -- Film festivals as urban encounter and cultural traffic / Dipti Gupta and Janine Marchessault -- Divergent diversities : pluralizing Toronto and Montreal / Jenny Burman -- Reflexive theorizing while travelling through Montreal and Toronto : the global cities discourse, new urbanism, and the travel essays of Jan Morris / Kieran Bonner.
- ISBN
- 9780773531819
- 0773531815
- 9780773531826 (pbk.)
- 0773531823 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 71540274
- SCSB-10656174
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library