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Cities and Sovereignty Identity Politics in Urban Spaces

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ISBN-10: 0253222745

ISBN-13: 9780253222749

Edition: 2011

Authors: Diane E. Davis, Nora Libertun de Duren, Anne Raffin, Salim Tamari, Gerardo del Cerro Santamar�a

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List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 2/1/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Diane E. Davis is Professor of Political Sociology and Head of the International Development Group, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT. She is author of Urban Leviathan: Mexico City in the Twentieth Century and Discipline and Development: Middle Classes and Prosperity in East Asia and Latin America as well as editor (with Anthony W. Pereira) of Violence, Coercion, and Rights in the Americas and Irregular Armed Forces and Their Role in Politics and State Formation.Nora Libertun de Duren is Director of Planning, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and…    

Diane E. Davis is Professor of Political Sociology and Head of the International Development Group, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT. She is author of Urban Leviathan: Mexico City in the Twentieth Century and Discipline and Development: Middle Classes and Prosperity in East Asia and Latin America as well as editor (with Anthony W. Pereira) of Violence, Coercion, and Rights in the Americas and Irregular Armed Forces and Their Role in Politics and State Formation.Nora Libertun de Duren is Director of Planning, New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and…    

Salim Tamariis Professor of Sociology at Birzeit University, Palestine, the Director of the Institute of Jerusalem Studies, and the author ofMountain Against the Sea(UC Press).

Preface and Acknowledgments
A Note on Dates
Introduction: Identity Conflicts in the Urban Realm
Modes of Sovereignty, Urban Governance, and the City
Jerusalem at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: Spatial Continuity and Social Fragmentation
Imperial Nationhood and Its Impact on Colonial Cities: Issues of Inter-group Peace and Conflict in Pondicherry and Vietnam
Confessionalism and Public Space in Ottoman and Colonial Jerusalem
Scales of Sovereignty and the Remaking of Urban and National Space
Sovereignty, Nationalism, and Globalization in Bilbao and the Basque Country
Contesting the Legitimacy of Urban Restructuring and Highways in Beirut's Irregular Settlements
Urban Locational Policies and the Geographies of Post-Keynesian Statehood in Western Europe
Sovereignty, Representation, and the Urban Built Environment
Iconic Architecture and Urban, National, and Global Identities
The Temptations of Nationalism in Modern Capital Cities
Hurvat haMidrash-The Ruin of the Oracle: Louis Kahn's Influence on the Reconstruction of the Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem
Conclusion: Theoretical and Empirical Reflections on Cities, Sovereignty, Identity, and Conflict
List of Contributors
Index