Imagining cities : scripts, signs, memory / edited by Sallie Westwood and John Williams

Contents: Part I: Theorizing Cities - .1.) Six Discources on the postmetropolis/ Edward W. Saja 2.) Imagining the real-time city: telecomuunications, urban paradigrams and the future of cities/ Stephen Graham 3.) Chaotic places or complex places? Cities in a post-industrial era/ David Byrne Part II : Racial/spatial imaginaries 4.) Out of the melting pot into the fire/imagining the east end as city, body, text/ Phil Cohen 5.) White Governmentality: Urbanism, nationalism, racism/Branor Hesse 6.) Migrant spaces and settlers' time: Forming amd de-forming an inner city/Max Farrar Part III ; 7.) Looking backward, nostlagia and the city/Elizabeth Wilson 8.) Authenticity and suburbia/ David Chaney 9.) 'Proper little mesters': Nostalgia and protest masculinity in de-industrialised sheffield/Ian Taylor & Ruth Jamieson Part IV: Narrating citiscapes 10.) This, here, now: imagining the modern city/James Donald 11.) (Re)Placing the city: Cultural relocation and the citry centre/Tim Hall 12.) Anglicising the American dream: tragedy, farce and the 'postmodern' city/Julie Charlesworth & Allan Cochrane Part V : Virtual Cities 13.) Cyberpunk as social theory: William Gibson and the sociological imagination/Roger Burrows 14.) Cities, subjectivity and cyberspace/Graham B. McBeath & Stephen A. Webb

Includes bibliography and index