Cosmopolitan urbanism / [et al.]. edited by Jon Binnie ... - New York, NY : Routledge, 2006. - p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Grounding cosmopolitan urbanism : approaches practices and policies / Jon Binnie, Julian Holloway, Steve Millington and Craig Young -- Envisaging cosmopolitan urbanism, cosmopolitan urbanism : a love song to our mongrel cities / Leonie Sandercock -- The paradox of cosmopolitan urbanism : rationality, difference and the circuits of cultural capital / Gary Bridge -- Strangers in the cosmopolis / Kurt Iveson -- Consuming the cosmopolitan city : materialities and practices sociality and the cosmopolitan imagination : national, cosmopolitan and local imaginaries in Auckland, New Zealand / Alan Latham -- Cosmopolitanism by default : public sociability in MontreÃÅal / Annick Germain and Martha Radice -- Cosmopolitan camouflage : (post-)gay in Spitalfields, East London / Gavin Brown -- Negotiating cosmopolitanism in Singapore's fictional landscape / Serene Tan and Brenda S.A. Yeoh -- Producing the cosmopolitan city : cultural policy and intervention multicultural urban space and the cosmopolitan 'other' : the contested revitalization of Amsterdam's Bijlmermeer / Annemarie Bodaar -- Working class subjects in the cosmopolitan city / Chris Haylett -- Planning Birmingham as a cosmopolitan city : recovering the depths of its diversity? / Wun Fung Chan -- Cosmopolitan knowledge and the production and consumption of sexualized space : Manchester's gay village / Jon Binnie and Beverley Skeggs -- Conclusion, the paradoxes of cosmopolitan urbanism / Jon Binnie, Julian Holloway, Steve Millington and Craig Young.

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Sociology, Urban.
Cosmopolitanism.
City dwellers.
Ethnic relations.
Race relations.
Urban geography.
Pluralism (Social sciences)
Spatial behavior.
Cities and towns--Case studies.