Remapping Beijing: Polylocality, Globalization, Cinema

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1. Introduction: World Cultures, World Cities 1
5. Latin America
6. Cultural Landscapes: Buenos Aires from Integration to Fracture 27
7. From Modernism to Neoliberalism in São Paulo: Reconfiguring the City and Its Citizens 51
8. Mexico City, 2010: Improvising Globalization 79
9. Africa
10. The Last Shall Be First: African Urbanities and the Larger Urban World 99
11. Unsettling Johannesburg: The Country in the City 121
12. Mega-exhibitions: The Antinomies of a Transnational Global Form 147
13. Asia
14. Mumbai: The Modern City in Ruins 181
15. Negotiating the Static and Kinetic Cities: The Emergent Urbanism of Mumbai 205
16. Remapping Beijing: Polylocality, Globalization, Cinema 219
17. Faking Globalization 243
18. Middle East
19. Two Dreams in a Global City: Class and Space in Urban Egypt 267
20. Hüzün—Melancholy—Tristesse of Istanbul 289
21. Bibliography 307
22. Contributors 321
23. Index 325