Title & Author:

Urban enigmas : Montreal, Toronto, and the problem of comparing cities / edited by Johanne Sloan.

Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2007.

Description:

xi, 298 pages ; 24 cm

Series:

Culture of cities project series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Comparing cities : on the mutual honouring of peculiarities / Alan Blum -- Comparing the cultures of cities : epistemological perspectives on the concept of metropolis from the cultural sciences / Jean-François Coté -- "To squeeze a single sentence out" : estrangement and disenchantment in Benjamin's "Marseilles" / Kevin Dowler -- The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi : staging polyphony in Montreal and Toronto / Michael Darroch and Jean-François Morissette -- Imagine-nation in the city : seriocomedy and local democracy / Greg M. Nielsen -- Ethnicity, social organization, and urban space : a comparison of Italians in Toronto and Montreal / Nicholas Demaria Harney -- At home on the street : public art in Montreal and Toronto / Johanne Sloan -- Film festivals as urban encounter and cultural traffic / Dipti Gupta and Janine Marchessault -- Divergent diversities : pluralizing Toronto and Montreal / Jenny Burman -- Reflexive theorizing while travelling through Montreal and Toronto : the global cities discourse, new urbanism, and the travel essays of Jan Morris / Kieran Bonner.

Summary:

The practice of comparison is implicit in every act of imagining, representing, and studying urban experience. Urban Enigmas contributes to recent interdisciplinary interest in cities by introducing comparison as a key methodology for urban cultural analysis.

Resources:
to access electronic resource

ISBN:

9780773531819
0773531815
9780773531826
0773531823

Subject:

Arts and society Ontario Toronto.
Arts and society Québec (Province) Montréal.
Sociology, Urban Ontario Toronto.
Sociology, Urban Québec (Province) Montréal.
Cultural pluralism Ontario Toronto.
Cultural pluralism Québec (Province) Montréal.
Arts et société Ontario Toronto.
Arts et société Québec (Province) Montréal.
Sociologie urbaine Ontario Toronto.
Sociologie urbaine Québec (Province) Montréal.
Diversité culturelle Ontario Toronto.
Diversité culturelle Québec (Province) Montréal.
Arts and society.
Cultural pluralism.
Social conditions
Sociology, Urban.
Stadtentwicklung
Toronto (Ont.) Social conditions.
Montréal (Québec) Social conditions.
Toronto (Ont.) Conditions sociales.
Montréal (Québec) Conditions sociales.
Ontario Toronto.
Québec Montréal.
Toronto
Montréal

Added entries:

Sloan, Johanne.
Culture of cities.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 258087
Call No.: HN110.M65 U7 2007
Notes: pbk
Status: Available