...Anthony Townsend Since the very origins of urban planning in the late nineteenth century, the field has aspired to establish a firm scientific footing for the nature of cities, their cycles of growth and decline, and ways that we can better plan and predict the outcomes of interventions through...

... drawn from digital media. While his notion of the generic city is modeled on the film studio set, with its utterly flexible and ephemeral structures expanded to the scale of the city, and his more recent structures embody the promises of a network society, Koolhaas fails to consider other image-making...

...: Local Politics in the Era of the Global City , Robert Fisher and Joseph Kling, eds. Newbury Park: Sage Publications, 191 -219. Anzaldúa , Gloria . 1987. Borderlands: La Frontera the New Mestiza . San Francisco: Spinsters/Aunt Lute Foundation. Appadurai , Arjun . 1990. “Disjuncture...

...Saskia Sassen Speech is a foundational element in theories about democracy and the political. As a concept it has seen both expansions and contractions of its meaning. But it has not yet been expanded to include the concept that the city might have speech. Saskia Sassen argues that cities have...

.... Managing Divided Cities . Keele, U.K.: University of Keele Press. Hall , S. 1991. “The Local and the Global: Globalization and Ethnicity.” In Anthony D. King, ed., Culture, Globalization and the World-System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identity. Current Debates in Art...

... and Medicine in Northern Nigeria.” In D. Cruise O'Brien and C. Coulon, eds., Charisma and Brotherhood in African Islam . London: Oxford University Press, 188 -201. Last , M. 1991. “Adolescents in a Muslim City.” Kano Studies Special Issue: 1 -22. Lubeck , P. 1984. “Islamic Networks...

...Dorien Zandbergen This empirical-critical study looks at the Air Quality Egg project, a Euro-American effort focused on the collaborative creation of a “smart” air quality sensor network. While widely celebrated as a “best practice” example of bottom-up smart city making, the involvement of a US...

.... The Suffering Body of the City Frédéric Le Marcis Translated by Judith Inggs S ince 1990, parallel to the period of transition to a democratic society, the S AIDS epidemic in South Africa has increased dramatically...

...-Lines Instant City John Matshikiza There must have been something here, where Johannesburg stands, before the Tgold rush, but it was never recorded in history. So Johannesburg became and remained, by default, an instant city, periodically...

... City Centers/Peripheral Transmissions: A Conversation with Lincoln Tobier Interviewed by Lisa Cohen L incoln Tobier’s work expresses what he calls “place in concentrated...

... Zhang Dali’s Dialogue: Conversation with a City Wu Hung Apublic controversy surfaced in Beijing’s newspapers in early 1998. At A its center was an image that had become familiar...

...Sabine I. Gölz Duke University Press 2006 Moscow for Flaneurs: Pedestrian Bridges, Europe Square, and Moskva-City Sabine I. Gölz On a sunny afternoon in early September 2001, having...

...: Historicity, Sacrifice, and the Spectacle of Debacle in Mexico City Claudio Lomnitz Idioms of Sacrifice in Mexico The cultural history of sacrifice in secular societies did not begin to be written...

...Ackbar Abbas Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Building on Disappearance: Hong Kong Architecture and the City Ackbar Abbas “Space” and “Place” Another luxury...

...Néstor García Canclini © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Néstor García Canclini teaches anthropology and urban culture at the Universidad Autonomia Metropolitana in Mexico City. Among his many works is the recent Ciudad de los viajeros (1996). Borja, Jordi, and Manuel...

..., not in relation to a “political claim.” You can be Indigenous wherever you are with “no natal claims” because, like the slaves who traveled with seeds in their hair, you have a relationship to the land that does not regard it as a possession (Hartman et al. 2021 ). This space that is other than “the city...

... and migrant justice. emma.crane@columbia.edu Copyright 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 environmental racism hazard suburbs peripheries US empire I study US empire and the afterlives of counterinsurgent warfare in a place alternately called a suburb, a city, a periphery, an exurb...

..., a landmark on the West Coast blues scene. Established in 1959, it survived for decades by operating in lively interdependence with the city. In Kim's analysis, “Esther's Orbit Room allowed Mabry's ambitions to proliferate not by reaching out, but by subdividing and incorporating varied spaces within.” EB...

... the distribution of water through pipes and that threatens broader power arrangements. 2016 cities climate changes housing politics water Specters of rationing haunt metro São Paulo. Drinking water supplies have plunged to historic and dangerous lows. Overall water use has been slashed by a fifth...