Imagining Cities

Sallie Westwood, John M Williams

• Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Imagining Cities Part I: Theorising Cities 1. Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis 2. Imagining the Real-Time City: Telecommunications, Urban Paradigms and the Future of Cities 3. Chaotic Places or Complex Places? Cities in a Post-Industrial Era Part II: Racial/Spatial Imaginaries 4. Out of the Melting Pot Into the Fire Next Time: Imagining the East End as City, Body, Text 5. White Governmentality: Urbanism, Nationalism, Racism 6. Migrant Spaces and Settlers’ Time: Forming and De-Forming an Inner City Part III: Nostalgia/Memory 7. Looking Backward, Nostalgia and the City 8. Authenticity and Suburbia 9. ‘Proper Little Mesters’: Nostalgia and Protest Masculinity and De-Industrialised Sheffield Part IV: Narrating Cityscapes 10. This, Here, Now: Imagining the Modern City 11. (Re)Placing the City: Cultural Relocation and the City as Centre 12. Anglicising the American Dream: Tragedy, Farce and the ‘Postmodern’ City Part V: Virtual Cities 13. Cyberpunk as Social Theory: William Gibson and the Sociological Imagination 14. Cities, Subjectivity and Cyberspace Bibliography Index