Comparing cities : the Middle East and South Asia

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Comparing cities : the Middle East and South Asia

editors, Kamran Asdar Ali and Martina Rieker ; postscript by Partha Chatterjee

Oxford University Press, 2009

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"This volume primarily brings together papers from the workshop, Comparing urban landscapes held at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in April of 2004"--Acknowledgements

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • No man's land : a visual essay (Mumbai) / Paromita Vohra
  • CIty of riffraff : crowds, public space, and new urban sensibilities in war-time Jerusalem, 1917-1921 / Salim Tamari
  • Men and their 'problems' : notes on contemporary Karachi / Kamran Asdar Ali
  • The body politic : gender and the practice of power in the city (Bangalore) / Janaki Nair
  • Decolonizing Diyarbakir : culture, identity and the struggle to appropriate urban space / Zeynep Gambetti
  • Re-visiting 'everyday life' : the experience of Delhi's media urbanism / Ravi Sundaram
  • Ghostly Sufis and ornamental shadows : spectral visualities in Karachi's public sphere / Iftikhar Dadi
  • The state and the production of illegal housing : public practices in Hayy el Sellom, Beirut-Lebanon / Mona Fawaz
  • Spaces of work/sites of danger : environment and urban landscape in modern Delhi / Awadhendra Sharan
  • Signs of sovereignty (Chennai) / Mary Hancock
  • A landscape of recovery : the polysemy of spaces/places in downtown Beirut / Yasmeen Arif
  • A postscript from Kolkata : an equal right to the city / Partha Chatterjee

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