Urban Enigmas
Montreal, Toronto, and the Problem of Comparing Cities
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2007
- Subjects
- City Planning & Urban Development, Post-Confederation (1867-)
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780773584754
- Publish Date
- Feb 2007
- List Price
- $34.95
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Description
Contributors, part of the collaborative research project The Culture of Cities: Montreal, Toronto, Dublin, and Berlin, address theoretical and methodological aspects of comparison, while case-studies examine the mutually constituted identities of Montreal and Toronto through examples of travel writing, public art, film festivals, theatrical performances, diasporic communities, ethnic festivals, and urban media. Comparison is shown to be not only something performed by experts but a deeply embedded, everyday social practice that contributes to the mutable identities of cities. Urban Enigmas demonstrates that the accumulation of urban actions, encounters, experiences, and relationships create distinctive patterns that make it possible to recognize the particularity of cities.
About the author
Johanne Sloan is professor of art history, Concordia University, and editor of Urban Enigmas: Montreal, Toronto, and the Problem of Comparing Cities.