| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 298 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Culture of cities project series
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Culture of cities.
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| Bibliography |
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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Arts and society -- Ontario -- Toronto.
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Arts and society. |
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Ontario -- Toronto. |
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Arts and society -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal.
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Toronto (Ont.) -- Social conditions.
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Montréal (Québec) -- Social conditions.
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Sociology, Urban -- Ontario -- Toronto.
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Sociology, Urban. |
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Sociology, Urban -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal.
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Cultural pluralism -- Ontario -- Toronto.
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Cultural pluralism. |
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Cultural pluralism -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Sloan, Johanne.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: (DLC) 2007282059 (OCoLC)71540274 |
| ISBN |
9780773577077 (electronic book) |
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0773577076 (electronic book) |
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1282867520 |
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9781282867529 |
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9780773531819 |
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0773531815 |
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9780773531826 (paperback) |
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0773531823 (paperback) |
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