Imagining Cities

Download or read book Imagining Cities written by Sallie Westwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997, 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 The book considers the interplay of past and present, imagined and substantive, and links present and future in examining the idea of the virtual city. Here, the world of cyberspace not only recasts views of space and communication, but has a profound impact on the sociological imagination itself.