Acknowledgments
Introduction - Patrice Petro and Linda Krause
Part I. Lead In - Global Cities in a Digital Age
Reading the City in a Global Digital Age - Between Topographic Representation and Spatialized Power Projects - Saskia Sassen
Collective Memory and Locality in Global Cities - Jennifer Jordan
Gobbled Up and Gone - Cultural Preservation and the Global City Marketplace - Tasha G. Oren
Part II. Vernaculars and Vernacular Modernisms - Language, Architecture, and Cinema
Los Toquis, or Urban Babel - Natasa Durovicová
Too Close to Home - Naruse Mikio and Japanese Cinema of the 1950s - Catherine Russell
Authenticity and Globalization - John B. Hertz
Part III. Global Fictions and Urban Identities
Global Cannibal City Machines - Recent Visions of Urban / Social Space - Peter Sands
Cinema, the City, and the Cinematic - Ackbar Abbas
Codes, Collectives, and Commodities - Rethinking Global Cities as Metalogistical Spaces - Timothy W. Luke
Part IV. Fadeaway - Architectural Views
Some Thoughts on Cities - Visions and Plans - Jorge Annibal-Iribarne
Architecture and Memory - Jo Noero
Notes on Contributors
Index