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Capital cities international perspectives = Les capitales : perspectives internationales /

Subjects: “…Capitals (Cities)…”
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Capital city cultures reconstructing contemporary Europe in Vienna and Berlin / by Frantz, Monika De

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: capital cities, culture, and political change in contemporary Europe -- European capital cities in transition -- Reconstructing capital city cultures : the museumsquartier in Vienna -- Reconstructing capital city culture : the Schlossplatz in Berlin -- Comparing capital city cultures.…”
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Capital cities of Arab Islam by Hitti, Philip K. (Philip Khuri), 1886-1978

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Finance and governance of capital cities in federal systems

Subjects: “…Capitals (Cities) Case studies.…”
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London, 1100-1600 the archaeology of a capital city / by Schofield, John, 1948-

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City tourism national capital perspectives /

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Government of paper the materiality of bureaucracy in urban Pakistan / by Hull, Matthew S. (Matthew Stuart), 1968-

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Culture, urbanism and planning

Table of Contents: “…: culture in planning's past, present, and future / Greg Young -- Capital cities and culture : evolution of twentieth-century capital city planning / David L.A. …”
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Place and displacement in the narrative worlds of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar by Tcherepashenets, Nataly

Table of Contents: “…Place in Borges's stories and the irony of revelation -- Familiar places, hidden challenges : revelation present and dissipated in "El Aleph" -- Dreaming in circles, facing the ruins : the mystery and limitations of the human self in "Las ruinas circulares" -- The illusion of power : the magic disc, human vulnerability, and the divine presence in "El disco" -- The infinite book : fear and longing -- Place as displacement in Cortázar's Hopscotch -- Towards the challenge and the refuge : Oliveira's Paris and the capital cities in nineteenth century novels -- Borges's voice in Cortázar's Buenos Aires -- Talita's dream : between Borgesean and Carnivalesque worlds -- The Carnivalesque city and the anxiety of alienation -- Oliveira's homelessness : displacement as "no placement" -- Fictional and 'real' places : convergences and divergences -- The 'exotic' or/and the 'familiar' : "Someone's land" and the traditions of literary utopia -- Challenging conventions and breaking illusions : the city and the language in 62 : modelo para armar -- Revisiting the Minotaur : heterotopia as place and mode of representation in Borges's "La casa de Asterion" -- Boarding the ship: the unresolved mystery of Cortázar's "Malcolm" -- Displacement, dreams and archive in Borges's essays -- Dreaming with Freud : displacement, art and magic in "El sueño de Coleridge" -- The repression of archive and the archivization of repression in "La muralla y los libros" -- Shaping the word : displacement and dialogical discourse in Borges's "La muralla y los libros" and in Kafka's "The Great Wall of China" -- Displacement and the divided self in Cortázar's stories -- Crossing the bridge : psychological division and the writing of discontent -- Beyond the door : rediscovering the multiple self -- Divided lives, overlapping spaces, and the impossibility of self-deception.…”
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