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TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Foreword: Urbanism as World Culture and Here Comes Everybody by Andy Merrifield Introduction: What Is Urban Culture? by Benjamin Fraser Part I. MOBILIZING THE FILMIC CITY Chapter 1. The Archive City: Film as Critical Spatial Practice Les Roberts Chapter 2. Capital, Mobility and Spatial Exclusion in Fernando Leon de Aranoa's Barrio (1998) Malcolm Alan Compitello Part II. THE HUMAN SENSES IN URBAN CONTEXTS Chapter 3. Henri Lefebvre in Strasbourg: The City as Use Value in Jose Luis Guerin's Dans la ville de Sylvie (2007) Benjamin Fraser Chapter 4. Sensing Capital: Sight, Sound and Touch in Esteban Sapir's La antena (2007) Benjamin Fraser Part III. CULTURES OF URBAN PROTEST Chapter 5. Psychoprotest: Derives of the Quebec Maple Spring Marc James Leger and Cayley Sorochan Chapter 6. The Huelga de Dolores and Guatemalan University Students' 'Happy and Wicked' Reproduction of Space, 1966-1969 Heather A. Vrana Part IV. THE HOUSING QUESTION Chapter 7. Residential Differentiation in the Vertical Cities of J. G. Ballard and Robert Silverberg Jeff Hicks Chapter 8. Red Vienna, Class and the Common Kimberly DeFazio Part V. (INTER)NATIONALIZING THE URBAN Chapter 9. Urban Culture as Passive Revolution: A Gramscian Sketch of the Uneven and Combined Transitional Development of Rural and Urban Modern Culture in Europe and Egypt Jelle Versieren and Brecht De Smet Chapter 10. The Urban Working-Class Culture of Riot in Osaka and L.A.: Toward a Comparative History Manuel Yang, Takeshi Haraguchi, and Kazuya Sakurada Index Notes on Contributors

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