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Being Urban : Community, Conflict and Belonging in the Middle East.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (278 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781000179712
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 307.12160956
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Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- The Contributors -- Introduction: What Is a Good City? -- Part I Engagement and Space -- Chapter 1 The Public Realm -- Chapter 2 On Urban Failure -- Chapter 3 On the Possibilty of Urban Citizenship: Inclusive Identities, Exclusive Spaces -- Part II Infrastructure and Affect -- Chapter 4 Urban Atmospheres -- Chapter 5 Atmospheric Urban Geopolitics -- Chapter 6 Becoming a Crowd Multiple Narratives, Identities and Ambiguities: People's Places in the Near East/Levant: Tahrir Square, Cairo, Taksim Square, Istanbul, Rabin Square, Tel Aviv -- Part III Conflict and Structure -- Chapter 7 The Conditions of Urbicide -- Chapter 8 Sovereignty and the Urban Question: Exploring the Material Foundations for Imagined Communities of Allegiance in Conflict Cities -- Chapter 9 Precariousness and Protest: Negotiating Urban Refuge in Cairo and Tel Aviv -- Part IV Curating the City -- Chapter 10 The Levantine Age: Cosmopolitanism and Colonialism in the Eastern Mediterranean -- Chapter 11 Excavating Urban Imaginaries in Tehran -- Chapter 12 A Spectral Sumud: Jaffa in Kamal Aljafari's Port of Memory -- Index.
Summary: In Being Urban, Simon Goldhill and his team of outstanding urbanists explore the meaning of the urban condition, with particular reference to the Middle East.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- The Contributors -- Introduction: What Is a Good City? -- Part I Engagement and Space -- Chapter 1 The Public Realm -- Chapter 2 On Urban Failure -- Chapter 3 On the Possibilty of Urban Citizenship: Inclusive Identities, Exclusive Spaces -- Part II Infrastructure and Affect -- Chapter 4 Urban Atmospheres -- Chapter 5 Atmospheric Urban Geopolitics -- Chapter 6 Becoming a Crowd Multiple Narratives, Identities and Ambiguities: People's Places in the Near East/Levant: Tahrir Square, Cairo, Taksim Square, Istanbul, Rabin Square, Tel Aviv -- Part III Conflict and Structure -- Chapter 7 The Conditions of Urbicide -- Chapter 8 Sovereignty and the Urban Question: Exploring the Material Foundations for Imagined Communities of Allegiance in Conflict Cities -- Chapter 9 Precariousness and Protest: Negotiating Urban Refuge in Cairo and Tel Aviv -- Part IV Curating the City -- Chapter 10 The Levantine Age: Cosmopolitanism and Colonialism in the Eastern Mediterranean -- Chapter 11 Excavating Urban Imaginaries in Tehran -- Chapter 12 A Spectral Sumud: Jaffa in Kamal Aljafari's Port of Memory -- Index.

In Being Urban, Simon Goldhill and his team of outstanding urbanists explore the meaning of the urban condition, with particular reference to the Middle East.

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