CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix INTRODUCTION. The City: Experience, Imagination, and Place xi Alev Cinar and Thomas Bender Boundaries, Networks, and Cities: Playing and Replaying Diasporas and Histories 1 Anthony D. King PART I. The City and Its Boundaries 1. Economy and Gender in the Urban Borderland: The Public Culture of Laleli, Istanbul 17 Deniz Yukseker 2. Borderlined in the Global City (of Angles) 37 Camilla Fojas 3. Modernity on the Waterfront: The Case of Haussmann's Paris 55 Margaret Cohen PART II. Competing Narratives of the City: Contested Inclusions and Exclusions 4. Assembling Douala: Imagining Forms of Urban Sociality 79 AbdouMaliq Simone 5. Cities without Maps: Favelas and the Aesthetics of Realism 100 Beatriz Jaguaribe 6. Fateful Triangles: Modernity and Its Antinomies in a Mediterranean Port City 121 Mark LeVine PART III. The City and the Vision of the Nation 7. The Imagined Community as Urban Reality: The Making of Ankara 151 Alev Cinar 8. Urban Space, National Time, and Postcolonial Difference: The Steel Towns of India 182 Srirupa Roy 9. Amman Is Not a City: Middle Eastern Cities in Question 208 Seteney Shami 10. Let the Dead Be Dead: Communal Imaginaries and National Narratives in the Post-Civil War Reconstruction of Beirut 236 Maha Yahya CONCLUSION. Reflections on the Culture of Urban Modernity 267 Thomas Bender CONTRIBUTORS 279 INDEX 281