Global cities : cinema, architecture, and urbanism in a digital age / edited by Linda Krause and Patrice Petro

I. Lead In. Reading the city in a global digital age. Between topographic representation and spatialized power projects / Saskia Sassen -- Collective memory and locality in global coties / Jennifer Jordan -- Gobbled up and gone. Cultural preservation and the global city marketplace / Tasha G. Oren -- II. Vernaculars and vernacular modernism. Language, architecture, and cinema -- Los Toquis, or Urban Babel / Natasa Durovicová -- Too close to home -- Naruse Mikio and japanese cinema of the 1950s / Catherine Russell -- Authenticity and globalization / John B. Hertz -- III. Global fictions and urban identities. Global cannibal city machines. Recent visions of urban / social space / Peter Sands -- Cinema, the city, and the cinematic / Ackbar Abbas -- Codes, collectives, and commodities. Rethinking global cities as metalogistical spaces / Timothy W. Luke -- IV. Fadeaway. Architectural views -- Some thoughts on cities. Visions and plans / Jorge Annibal-Iribarne -- Architecture and memory / Jo Noero.

Acknowledgments: p. vii-viii.

Introduction: p. 1-11.

Notes on contributors: p. 195-197.

Index: p. 199-213.