Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction: Globalizing Downtown 1
4. PART I. Imagination
5. 1. Toward a Genealogy of Downtowns 29
6. 2. From Peking to Beijing: Production of Centrality in the Global Age 48
7. 3. Simulations of Barcelona: Urban Projects in Port Spaces (1981– 2002) 65
8. 4. Urbanist Ideology and the Production of Space in the United Arab Emirates: An Anthropological Critique 90
9. PART II. Consumption
10. 5. Reaching for Dubai: Nashville Dreams of a Twenty- First- Century Skyline 113
11. 6. From National Utopia to Elite Enclave: “Economic Realities” and Resistance in the Reconstruction of Beirut 136
12. 7. When the Film Festival Comes to (Down)Town: Transnational Circuits, Tourism, and the Urban Economy of Images 160
13. 8. The Future of the Past: World Heritage, National Identity, and Urban Centrality in Late Socialist Cuba 186
14. PART III. Conflict
15. 9. Utopia/Dystopia: Art and Downtown Development in Los Angeles 209
16. 10. “Slum- Free Mumbai” and Other Entrepreneurial Strategies in the Making of Mumbai’s Global Downtown 234
17. 11. Downtown as Brand, Downtown as Land: Urban Elites and Neoliberal Development in Contemporary New York City 253
18. 12. Beside Downtown: Global Chinatowns 273
19. NOTES 297
20. Bibliography 311
21. Contributors 345
22. Index 349
23. Acknowledgments 359