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Abstract
"In Being Urban, Simon Goldhill and his team of outstanding urbanists explore the meaning of the urban condition, with particular reference to the Middle East. As Goldhill explains in his introduction, 'What is a good city?', five questions motivate the book: How can a city be systematically planned and yet maintain a possibility of flexibility, change, and the wellbeing of citizens? How does the city represent itself to itself, and image its past, its present and its future? What is it to dwell in, and experience, a city? How does violence erupt in and to a city, and what the strategies of reconciliation and reconstruction can be employed? And finally, what is the relationship between the infrastructure of the city and the political process? Following the introduction, the twelve chapters are grouped into four sections: Engagement and Space; Infrastructure and Space; Conflict and Structures; Curating the City. Through each chapter, the contributors reflect on aspects of urban infrastructure and culture, citizenship, belonging and exclusion, politics and conflict, with examples from across the Middle East, from Cairo to Tehran, Tel Aviv to Istanbul. Not only will Being Urban further understanding of the topography of citizenship in the Middle East and beyond, it will contribute to answering one of today's key questions: What Is A Good City?"--
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- The Contributors -- Introduction: What Is a Good City? -- Part I Engagement and Space -- Chapter 1 The Public Realm -- Chapter 2 On Urban Failure -- Chapter 3 On the Possibilty of Urban Citizenship: Inclusive Identities, Exclusive Spaces -- Part II Infrastructure and Affect -- Chapter 4 Urban Atmospheres -- Chapter 5 Atmospheric Urban Geopolitics -- Chapter 6 Becoming a Crowd Multiple Narratives, Identities and Ambiguities: People's Places in the Near East/Levant: Tahrir Square, Cairo, Taksim Square, Istanbul, Rabin Square, Tel Aviv -- Part III Conflict and Structure -- Chapter 7 The Conditions of Urbicide -- Chapter 8 Sovereignty and the Urban Question: Exploring the Material Foundations for Imagined Communities of Allegiance in Conflict Cities -- Chapter 9 Precariousness and Protest: Negotiating Urban Refuge in Cairo and Tel Aviv -- Part IV Curating the City -- Chapter 10 The Levantine Age: Cosmopolitanism and Colonialism in the Eastern Mediterranean -- Chapter 11 Excavating Urban Imaginaries in Tehran -- Chapter 12 A Spectral Sumud: Jaffa in Kamal Aljafari's Port of Memory -- Index.
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