Tales of the City: No. 37 ("Soundings")

by JonathanRutherford (Editor)

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  2008

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  Ash Amin asks what is salvageable from the old idea of the city as the ideal republic, the site of a potential utopian future. Gerry Hassan discusses the innovative Glasgow 2020 project, in which local citizens participated in a project to reimagine the city through stories. Rupa Huq discusses those vast swathes of our cities that are somehow seen as not part of them - the suburbs. David Morley's essay reflects on the different ways that Istanbul is represented and experienced. Branko Milanovic gives a concise account of the different ways that global inequality is measured. Philip Golub and Chalmers Johnson each reflect on American empire.Francisco Dominguez charts the progress of the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela. Pat Devine addresses other means of resisting the market-dogma view of the world, by putting forward a non-market model of economic planning. Cormac Cullinan argues that western legal systems must move way from an Enlightenment-based view and Stuart Hall talks to Bill Schwarz about the importance of culture to politics.