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IMAGINING CITIES

The city has always been a meeting point for cross-disciplinary discussion within the

debates of modernity and, more recently, postmodernity. Imagining Cities gives students

access to the most exciting recent work on the city from within sociology, cultural studies

and cultural geography.

Contributions are grouped around four major themes:

• The theoretical imagination

• Ethnic diversity and the politics of difference

• Memory and nostalgia

• The city as narrative

While these representations consider the interplay of past and present, imagined and

substantive, the final section of the book links present and future in examining the idea of

the virtual city. Here, the world of cyberspace not only recasts our imaginaries of spaces

and communication, but has a profound impact on the sociological imagination itself.

Contributors: Roger Burrows, David Byrne, David Chaney, Julie Charlesworth, Allan

Cochrane, Phil Cohen, James Donald, Max Farrar, Stephen Graham, Tim Hall, Barnor

Hesse, Ruth Jamieson, Graham B. McBeath, Edward W.Soja, lan Taylor, Stephen

A.Webb, Elizabeth Wilson.

Sallie Westwood is Professor of Sociology and John Williams is Football Trust

Research Lecturer, both at the University of Leicester.

IMAGINING CITIES

scripts, signs, memory

Edited by

SALLIE WESTWOOD and

JOHN WILLIAMS

LONDON AND NEW YORK

First published 1997

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

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CONTENTS

Figures

List of contributors

vii

Acknowledgements

viii

IMAGINING CITIES

Sallie WestwoodJohn Williams

Part I Theorising cities

1 SIX DISCOURSES ON THE POSTMETROPOLIS

Edward W. Soja

2 IMAGINING THE REAL-TIME CITY:

TELECOMMUNICATIONS, URBAN PARADIGMS AND THE

FUTURE OF CITIES

Stephen Graham

3 CHAOTIC PLACES OR COMPLEX PLACES? CITIES IN A POST-

INDUSTRIAL ERA

David Byrne

Part II Racial/spatial imaginaries

4 OUT OF THE MELTING POT INTO THE FIRE NEXT TIME:

IMAGINING THE EAST END AS CITY, BODY, TEXT

Phil Cohen

5 WHITE GOVERNMENTALITY: URBANISM, NATIONALISM,

RACISM

Barnor Hesse

6 MIGRANT SPACES AND SETTLERS’ TIME: FORMING AND

DE-FORMING AN INNER CITY

Max Farrar

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