Screen LibraryThe spirit of cities：why the identity of a city matters in a global age
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, N.J. |
| Publication Dates: | c2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 347 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. |
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9780691151441 (hardcover : alk. paper) 069115144X (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | C912 |
| CLC: | C912.81 |
| Call Number: | C912.81/B433 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-331) and index. Introduction : civicism -- Jerusalem : the city of religion -- Montreal : the city of language(s) -- Singapore : the city of nation building -- Hong kong : the city of materialism -- Beijing : the city of political power -- Oxford : the city of learning -- Berlin : the city of (in)tolerance -- Paris : the city of romance -- New York : the city of ambition. "...How the ethos of each city is expressed in political, cultural, and economic life, and also how pride in a city's ethos can oppose the homogenizing tendencies of globalization and curb the exesses of nationalism"--Jacket p. [2]. |