Urban Imaginaries

<div> <p>For millennia the city stood out against the landscape walled and compact. This concept of the city was long accepted as adequate for characterizing the urban experience. However the nature of the city both real and imagined has always been more permeable than this model reveals.</p> <p>The essays in <i>Urban Imaginaries</i> respond to this condition by focusing on how social and physical space is conceived as both indefinite and singular. They emphasize the ways this space is shared and thus made into urban culture. Urban Imaginaries offers case studies on cities in Brazil Israel Turkey Lebanon and India as well as in the United States and France and in doing so blends social cultural and political approaches to better understand the contemporary urban experience.</p> <p>Contributors: Margaret Cohen Stanford U; Camilla Fojas De Paul U; Beatriz Jaguaribe Federal U of Rio de Janeiro; Anthony D. King SUNY Binghamton; Mark LeVine U of California Irvine; Srirupa Roy U of Massachusetts Amherst; Seteney Shami Social Science Research Council; AbdouMaliq Simone New School U; Maha Yahya; Deniz Yükseker Koç U Istanbul.</p> <p>Alev Çinar is associate professor of political science and public administration at Bilkent University Turkey. Thomas Bender is university professor of the humanities and history at New York University.</p> </div>