Spaces of Global Cultures: Architecture, Urbanism, Identity

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Illustrations ix
• Illustration Acknowledgments xi
• Preface and Introduction xiii
• Acknowledgments xvii
• Part One - Theories 1
• Chapter 1: - Worlds in the City: from Wonders of Modern Design to Weapons of Mass Destruction 3
• Chapter 2: - Interrogating Global Culture(S) 23
• Chapter 3: - Cultures and Spaces of Postcolonial Knowledges 45
• Chapter 4: - The Times and Spaces of Modernity 65
• Chapter 5: - Writing Transnational Planning Histories: the Dialectics of Dual Development 82
• Part Two - Histories 95
• Chapter 6: - Suburb/Ethnoburb/Globurb: the Making of Contemporary Modernities 97
• Chapter 7: - Villafication: the Transformation of Chinese Cities 111
• Chapter 8: - Imagining the World at Home: the Distant Spaces of the Indian City 127

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Illustrations ix
• Illustration Acknowledgments xi
• Preface and Introduction xiii
• Acknowledgments xvii
• Part One - Theories 1
• Chapter 1: - Worlds in the City: from Wonders of Modern Design to Weapons of Mass Destruction 3
• Chapter 2: - Interrogating Global Culture(S) 23
• Chapter 3: - Cultures and Spaces of Postcolonial Knowledges 45
• Chapter 4: - The Times and Spaces of Modernity 65
• Chapter 5: - Writing Transnational Planning Histories: the Dialectics of Dual Development 82
• Part Two - Histories 95
• Chapter 6: - Suburb/Ethnoburb/Globurb: the Making of Contemporary Modernities 97
• Chapter 7: - Villafication: the Transformation of Chinese Cities 111
• Chapter 8: - Imagining the World at Home: the Distant Spaces of the Indian City 127
• Chapter 9: - Transnational Delhi Revisited: the Spatial Language of Three Modernities 141
• Chapter 10: - Imperialism, Colonialism and Architects of the Arts and Crafts in Britain 161
• Part Three - Pasts/Presents/Futures 187
• Chapter 11: - Ways of Seeing: Serendipity, Visuality, Experience 189
• Afterword 223
• References 225
• Name Index 244
• Subject Index 253