Marina Peterson is Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University and author of Sound, Space, and the City: Civic Performance in Downtown Los Angeles, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Gary McDonogh is Professor in the Growth and the Structure of Cities program at Bryn Mawr College. He has written and edited many books, most recently Iberian Worlds.

• Introduction: Globalizing Downtown-Gary W. McDonogh and Marina PetersonPART I. IMAGINATION1. Toward a Genealogy of Downtowns-Robert Rotenberg2. From Peking to Beijing: Production of Centrality in the Global Age-Xuefei Ren3. Simulations of Barcelona: Urban Projects in Port Spaces (1981- 2002)-Francesc MagrinyÀ and Gaspar Maza4. Urbanist Ideology and the Production of Space in the United Arab Emirates: An Anthropological Critique-Ahmed KannaPART II. CONSUMPTION5. Reaching for Dubai: Nashville Dreams of a Twenty-First-Century Skyline-Richard Lloyd and Brian D. Christens6. From National Utopia to Elite Enclave: "Economic Realities" and Resistance in the Reconstruction of Beirut-Najib Hourani7. When the Film Festival Comes to (Down)Town: Transnational Circuits, Tourism, and the Urban Economy of Images-William Cunningham Bissell8. The Future of the Past: World Heritage, National Identity, and Urban Centrality in Late Socialist Cuba-Matthew J. HillPART III. CONFLICT9. Utopia/Dystopia: Art and Downtown Development in Los Angeles-Marina Peterson10. "Slum-Free Mumbai" and Other Entrepreneurial Strategies in the Making of Mumbai's Global Downtown-Liza Weinstein11. Downtown as Brand, Downtown as Land: Urban Elites and Neoliberal Development in Contemporary New York City-Julian Brash12. Beside Downtown: Global Chinatown-Gary W. McDonogh and Cindy Hing-Yuk WongNotesBibliographyList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments

"Global Downtowns succeeds brilliantly in its quest to unpack the complexities of downtown creation (and recreation) in global (and globalizing) cities, and it should be of lively interest to urban scholars, senior undergraduates and Masters-level urban studies students, and to urbanists more generally."-Journal of Regional Science

Marina Peterson is Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University and author of Sound, Space, and the City: Civic Performance in Downtown Los Angeles, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Gary McDonogh is Professor in the Growth and the Structure of Cities program at Bryn Mawr College. He has written and edited many books, most recently Iberian Worlds.

• Introduction: Globalizing Downtown-Gary W. McDonogh and Marina PetersonPART I. IMAGINATION1. Toward a Genealogy of Downtowns-Robert Rotenberg2. From Peking to Beijing: Production of Centrality in the Global Age-Xuefei Ren3. Simulations of Barcelona: Urban Projects in Port Spaces (1981- 2002)-Francesc MagrinyÀ and Gaspar Maza4. Urbanist Ideology and the Production of Space in the United Arab Emirates: An Anthropological Critique-Ahmed KannaPART II. CONSUMPTION5. Reaching for Dubai: Nashville Dreams of a Twenty-First-Century Skyline-Richard Lloyd and Brian D. Christens6. From National Utopia to Elite Enclave: "Economic Realities" and Resistance in the Reconstruction of Beirut-Najib Hourani7. When the Film Festival Comes to (Down)Town: Transnational Circuits, Tourism, and the Urban Economy of Images-William Cunningham Bissell8. The Future of the Past: World Heritage, National Identity, and Urban Centrality in Late Socialist Cuba-Matthew J. HillPART III. CONFLICT9. Utopia/Dystopia: Art and Downtown Development in Los Angeles-Marina Peterson10. "Slum-Free Mumbai" and Other Entrepreneurial Strategies in the Making of Mumbai's Global Downtown-Liza Weinstein11. Downtown as Brand, Downtown as Land: Urban Elites and Neoliberal Development in Contemporary New York City-Julian Brash12. Beside Downtown: Global Chinatown-Gary W. McDonogh and Cindy Hing-Yuk WongNotesBibliographyList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments

"Global Downtowns succeeds brilliantly in its quest to unpack the complexities of downtown creation (and recreation) in global (and globalizing) cities, and it should be of lively interest to urban scholars, senior undergraduates and Masters-level urban studies students, and to urbanists more generally."-Journal of Regional Science

Marina Peterson is Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University and author of Sound, Space, and the City: Civic Performance in Downtown Los Angeles, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Gary McDonogh is Professor in the Growth and the Structure of Cities program at Bryn Mawr College. He has written and edited many books, most recently Iberian Worlds.

• Introduction: Globalizing Downtown-Gary W. McDonogh and Marina PetersonPART I. IMAGINATION1. Toward a Genealogy of Downtowns-Robert Rotenberg2. From Peking to Beijing: Production of Centrality in the Global Age-Xuefei Ren3. Simulations of Barcelona: Urban Projects in Port Spaces (1981- 2002)-Francesc MagrinyÀ and Gaspar Maza4. Urbanist Ideology and the Production of Space in the United Arab Emirates: An Anthropological Critique-Ahmed KannaPART II. CONSUMPTION5. Reaching for Dubai: Nashville Dreams of a Twenty-First-Century Skyline-Richard Lloyd and Brian D. Christens6. From National Utopia to Elite Enclave: "Economic Realities" and Resistance in the Reconstruction of Beirut-Najib Hourani7. When the Film Festival Comes to (Down)Town: Transnational Circuits, Tourism, and the Urban Economy of Images-William Cunningham Bissell8. The Future of the Past: World Heritage, National Identity, and Urban Centrality in Late Socialist Cuba-Matthew J. HillPART III. CONFLICT9. Utopia/Dystopia: Art and Downtown Development in Los Angeles-Marina Peterson10. "Slum-Free Mumbai" and Other Entrepreneurial Strategies in the Making of Mumbai's Global Downtown-Liza Weinstein11. Downtown as Brand, Downtown as Land: Urban Elites and Neoliberal Development in Contemporary New York City-Julian Brash12. Beside Downtown: Global Chinatown-Gary W. McDonogh and Cindy Hing-Yuk WongNotesBibliographyList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments

"Global Downtowns succeeds brilliantly in its quest to unpack the complexities of downtown creation (and recreation) in global (and globalizing) cities, and it should be of lively interest to urban scholars, senior undergraduates and Masters-level urban studies students, and to urbanists more generally."-Journal of Regional Science