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... forces. As is happening elsewhere, Japan's construction of a new type of eco-city is being posed as a mediation of these varied conditions and forces; as a solution of sorts, it also promises to reorganize everyday life. Drawing on plans for the eco-city, this essay addresses the conditions of crisis...

... Intervention Better City, Better Life Better City There was a popular expression, in Shanghai anyway, that went “Miss the expo and you’ll regret it for life. Go to the expo and you’ll regret the whole day” (buqu shibo, houhui yibeizi; qu shibo, houhui yitian). The days...

...Marilyn Ivy Abstract This essay seeks to understand the writing strategies and structures that David Peace uses in Occupied City , the second novel of his Tokyo Trilogy set in the American occupation period (1945–52). Focusing on the (still unsolved) historical crime of the Teikoku Bank mass...

...Samuel Weber Duke University Press 2003 y 2 / 30:1 / sheet 21 of 224 6808 boundar ‘‘Streets, Squares, Theaters A City on the Move— Walter Benjamin’s Paris...

...Wang Xiaoming; Lennet Daigle Among the consequences of China’s continued urbanization is a continued decline in the quantity of space and quality of life that cities provide for their less affluent residents. As both transportation rights and public gathering spaces disappear, the disadvantaged...

...Alexander Kazamias This essay provides an alternative reading of modern Alexandria's social and cultural history as a basis for a better contextualization of Cavafy's poetry. It revisits the watershed year 1882, which marks the city's destruction after its bombardment by the British fleet, using...

.... To read these works in that historicist spirit (despite their nonrealist genre) is to identify social referents of central importance to their meanings. The city of The Unconsoled is typical of post–Cold War Europe in its emphasis on “culture,” in a world where civic mutuality coexists with economic...

...Mustafa Aloui The city of Kasserine, in the central-west region of Tunisia, which has long been the epicenter of protest against the policies of Ben Ali’s government, erupted into full-scale insurrection the first week of January 2011. Not far from Kasserine lies Sidi Bouzid, where protestors had...

...Philip Armstrong In the conclusion to Exiles in the City, and drawing from the writings of Hannah Arendt, Edward Said, and Giorgio Agamben, William Spanos refers to an “agonic friendship” that is not “‘friendship’ as such”—that is, friendship premised on “filiation or affiliation...

... Asian history. Two significant moments in the exhibitions of Asia are examined. The first is the Fukuoka Art Museum's First Asian Artists Exhibition (1979–1980); the second is the Japan Foundation's and the Tokyo City Opera Art Gallery's Under Construction: New Dimensions of Asian Art (2000–2002...

...Harry Harootunian Abstract While David Peace's epic Tokyo Trilogy concentrates on the years after Japan's defeat in 1945 and the city of Tokyo as a classic crime scene, this essay proposes that the traditional pursuit of detection recedes in importance compared to the time of the “postwar,” a new...

...Sora Han Abstract This article explores the history of jail construction and architecture on the occasion of a now vacant North County Jail that sits in the center of downtown Oakland. Put to use neither by the state as COVID‐19 ravaged overcrowded prisons nor by the city trying to find ways...

..., and historiographical salience of the West. This review isolates seven features of Western history from The West 's narrative and analysis: a style of learning pioneered in ancient Greece; the importance of cities; an alternating series of political forms, including monarchy, democracy, republic, and empire; a tendency...

... back to the metropolitan cities—London and Liverpool—where he had previously resided. Cavafy remained firmly oriented toward the West, and his Anglophilic cosmopolitanism is inextricably linked to commerce and culture as they intersect with his family history. The museum ethos that later defines his...

... , 1963) and `Abd al-Rahman Munif's Mudun al-Milh ( Cities of Salt , 1984). Both depict metaphysical, transcendent worlds that are destroyed by the inexorable march of modernity. These narratives begin with idealized agrarian communities but climax with the metamorphosis of humanity into a machinelike...

...Lee Konstantinou This essay investigates the common charge that contemporary US fiction and the literature of 9/11 have failed to meaningfully engage with the world. While it is true that American fiction has become increasingly insular and that the New York City-based publishing industry...

... has historical causes, and the history is a disputed one. Cities and people have multiple names, boundaries are uncertain, and there is no agreement on a protocol to settle contested issues. This introduction, like the collection of essays that follow, shies away from explaining why this may...

... that these open and dynamic microworlds continue to organize community life and leisure in particular ways, while defying the privatization of public space and the normative imperatives of neoliberal urban development in the postsocialist city. History’s Restless Ruins: On Socialist Public Monuments...

..., with no ships to load and unload, donned a blue bespeaking its cleaner beginnings. The occasional swooshing of cars or buses was a sad, comforting one—comforting because it shattered the morbid stillness of the city. Vacant beeches, parks, streets, shops, fac- tories, restaurants...

... really did not want to live there anymore. But now living in Tokyo, I also wanted for myself, but particularly for my children, who were both born in Tokyo, to try to be able to understand this place, this city too. I've said this before, but walking around Sumida, I was very conscious...