Urban Enigmas: Montreal, Toronto, and the Problem of Comparing Cities 9780773577077

The practice of comparison is implicit in every act of imagining, representing, and studying urban experience. Urban Eni

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Urban Enigmas: Montreal, Toronto, and the Problem of Comparing Cities
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Table of contents :
Cover
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Part One: Practising Comparison
1 Comparing Cities: On the Mutual Honouring of Peculiarities
2 Comparing the Cultures of Cities: Epistemological Perspectives on the Concept of Metropolis from the Cultural Sciences
3 “To Squeeze a Single Sentence Out”: Estrangement and Disenchantment in Benjamin’s “Marseilles”
Part Two: Fragmented Cities
4 The Dragonfly of Chicoutimi: Staging Polyphony in Montreal and Toronto
5 Imagine-Nation in the City: Seriocomedy and Local Democracy
6 Ethnicity, Social Organization, and Urban Space: A Comparison of Italians in Toronto and Montreal
7 At Home on the Street: Public Art in Montreal and Toronto
Part Three: Global Narratives
8 Divergent Diversities: Pluralizing Toronto and Montreal
9 Reflexive Theorizing while Travelling through Montreal and Toronto: The Global Cities Discourse, New Urbanism, and the Travel Essays of Jan Morris

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