Sustaining Cities: Urban Policies, Practices, and Perceptions

Contents

Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Linda Krause P A R T I Urban Policies: Market Rules Sustainable City: Crisis and Opportunity in Mexico 13 Alfonso Iracheta Hostage Cities: Unsustainable Competition for Corporate Investment 25 Linda McCarthy Reframing Housing Value 43 Sherry Ahrentzen P A R T I I Urban Practices: Connecting Communities Notes toward a History of Agrarian Urbanism 63 Charles Waldheim C O N T E N T S v The Art of Place-making 76 Georgia Butina Watson Beyond Boundaries 95 Mo Zell P A R T I I I Urban Perceptions: Tigers, Tricksters, and Other Urban Legends Chinese Cities: Design and Disappearance 111 Ackbar Abbas From “The Dead” to the Dead: The Disposable Bodies and Disposable Culture of Celtic Tiger Noir 122 Andrew Kincaid Imagining and Reimagining a Promised Land: The Gangster Genre and Harlem’s Mythic Past, Present, and Future 135 Paula J. Massood Notes on Contributors 155 Index 159 contents vi ...