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“Global cities” are generally exclusively defined by flows of global capital/ This narrow conception of global urbanity invalidates cities such as Byzantium-Constantinople-Istanbul which has been a global city for over fifteen centuries, Abbasid Baghdad that was once a global city for science, and Bombay which has longed claimed to be a global city for cineme and the arts. The present volume attempts to redress the balance. It contends that thinking about the city in the longue duree’ and as part of a network of regions, contents both imperial and nationalist ways of reading cities. In doing so, it looks at what recent literature overlooks, presents neglected counter-cartographies and foregrounds subaltern cosmopolitanisms.
Chapters on Istanbul, Cairo and Beirut present counter-cartographies of cities that were as much Asiatic and African as European, while those on Bukhara, Lhasa, Delhi, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo highlight an alternatively cosmopolitanism in Asian cities and conflicts and violence. In addition to the famous question, who has the right to the city, The Other Global City asks, do cities have rights? Seeking a way to re- image the global city, the present volume should be required reading for anthropologists, sociologists, urbanists and planners and will also be of interest to the general reader.
ISBN - 9789380403168
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Pages : 200
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