Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Spatial imaginaries -- Streets, imaginaries, and mod ernity: Vienna is not Berlin / David Frisby -- The global spaces of Los Angeles, 1920s-1930s / Philip J. Ethington -- Architecture at the ends of empire: urban reflections between Algiers and Marseille / Sheila Cr ane -- The city in fragments: kaleidoscopic Johannesburg after aparthei d / Martin J. Murray -- Spatial politics -- Violence and spatial politi cs between the local and imperial: Baghdad 1778-1810 / Dina Rizk Khoury -- From the lettered city to the sellers' city: vendor politics and pu blic space in urban Mexico, 1880-1926 / Christina M. Jimâenez -- The ci ty as theater of protest: West Berlin and West Germany, 1962-83 / Belin da Davis -- Nuestro pueblo: the spatial and cultural politics of Los An geles' Watts Towers / Sarah Schrank -- Spaces of everyday life -- Mora lity, majesty, and murder in 1950s London: metropolitan culture and Eng lish modernity / Frank Mort -- (Re)Imagining an African city: performin g culture, arts, and citizenship in Dakar (Senegal), 1980-2000 / Mamado u Diouf -- Street observation science and the Tokyo economic bubble, 19 86-1990 / Jordan Sand -- Spectacle and death in the city of Bombay cine ma / Ranjani Mazumdar.