Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction: A City in Transition
1. Turning to Culture in Times of Crisis
2. New Objects of Government Innovation: Heritage, Culture, and Tourism
3. Becoming a Historic Center: The Invention of San Telmo
4. Best Practice in a Transnational Discourse Community
5. Recentering the South: The Creative, Livable City
6. The Production of Value in a Tourist Market
7. Contested Urban Futures
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Jacob Lederman is assistant professor of sociology at the University of MichiganFlint.
"Jacob Lederman shows how politicians’ ambitions to make Buenos
Aires a ‘world-class’ city appeal to global audiences while
inflaming local tensions and reinforcing inequality. This nuanced
study of a ‘creative’ city in the global South is a provocative,
elegantly written contribution to comparative urban
studies."-Sharon Zukin, author of Naked City and The Innovation
Complex
"This clearly written and persuasively argued book will be of
invaluable use to urban sociologists and geographers interested in
understanding in more detail and depth the varied ideological
debates and pragmatic ramifications of urban policy making, city
planning, and class relations in the Global South."-American
Journal of Sociology"Chasing World-Class Urbanism is a book that
ties conceptual innovation with empirical richness, and aims to put
in conversation theories from different toolkits. "-Sociological
Forum"A significant contribution to our provisional and still
incomplete understanding of architecture’s relation to capitalism.
"-Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians"[Chasing
World-Class Urbanism] stands out in its nuanced analysis of the
dynamics of global and local cultural politics."-City & Community
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