ABSTRACT
First published in 1997, Imagining Cities gives students access to the most exciting recent work on the city from within sociology, cultural studies and cultural geography. Contributions are grouped around four major themes:
- The theoretical imagination
- Ethnic diversity and the politics of difference
- Memory and nostalgia
- The city as narrative
The book considers the interplay of past and present, imagined and substantive, and links present and future in examining the idea of the virtual city. Here, the world of cyberspace not only recasts views of space and communication, but has a profound impact on the sociological imagination itself.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|54 pages
Theorising Cities
chapter 2|19 pages
Imagining the Real-Time City *
Telecommunications, urban paradigms and the future of cities
part II|54 pages
Racial/Spatial Imaginaries
chapter 4|15 pages
Out of the Melting Pot Into the Fire Next Time
Imagining the East End as city, body, text
part III|54 pages
Nostalgia/Memory
chapter 9|27 pages
‘Proper Little Mesters’
Nostalgia and protest masculinity in de – industrialised Sheffield
part IV|54 pages
Narrating Cityscapes
part V|28 pages
Virtual Cities