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In Global Cities , scholars from an impressive array of disciplines critique the growing body of literature on the process broadly known as "globalization." This interdisciplinary focus enables the authors to explore the complex geographies of modern cities, and offer possible strategies for reclaiming a sense of place and community in these globalized urban settings. While examining major cities including New York, Tokyo, Berlin, Paris, and Hong Kong, contributors insist that the study of urban experiences must remain as attentive to the material effects as to the psychic and social consequences of globalization. Accordingly, essays explore the implications of global culture for architecture, cinema, and communication--but do so in a way that highlights the importance of the spaces between such metropolitan centers. These locations, the authors argue, serve as increasingly important "frontier zones," where a diverse set of actors converge and contend for power and presence. Such a perspective ultimately adds nuance and meaning to our understanding of the heterogeneous urban landscapes of these global cities. Linda Krause is an associate professor in the Department of Architecture at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Patrice Petro is professor of film studies and director of the Center for International Education at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. A volume in the New Directions in International Studies series, edited by Patrice Petro

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• Acknowledgments(p. vii)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• I Lead In--Global Cities in a Digital Age
• Reading the City in a Global Digital Age--Between Topographic Representation and Spatialized Power Projects(p. 15)
• Collective Memory and Locality in Global Cities(p. 31)
• Gobbled Up and Gone--Cultural Preservation and the Global City Marketplace(p. 49)
• II Vernaculars and Vernacular Modernisms--Language, Architecture, and Cinema
• Los Toquis, or Urban Babel(p. 71)
• Too Close to Home--Naruse Mikio and Japanese Cinema of the 1950s(p. 87)
• Authenticity and Globalization(p. 115)
• III Global Fictions and Urban Identities
• Global Cannibal City Machines--Recent Visions of Urban/Social Space(p. 129)
• Cinema, the City, and the Cinematic(p. 142)
• Codes, Collectives, and Commodities--Rethinking Global Cities as Metalogistical Spaces(p. 157)
• IV Fadeaway--Architectural Views
• Some Thoughts on Cities--Visions and Plans(p. 177)
• Architecture and Memory(p. 185)
• Notes on Contributors(p. 195)
• Index(p. 199)

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Linda Krause is an associate professor in the Department of Architecture at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Patrice Petro is professor of film studies and director of the Center for International Education at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.