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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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Political Landscapes of Capital Cities /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : The spatial turn and political landscapes of capital cities / Eulogio Guzmán, Jessica Joyce Christie, and Jelena Bogdanović -- Akhenaten's Amarna in new kingdom Egypt : relations of landscape and ideology / Jessica Joyce Christie -- "Memorials of the ability of them all" : tetrarchic displays in the Roman Forum's central area / Gregor Kalas -- The relational spiritual geopolitics of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire / Jelena Bogdanović -- Beyond the ashes : the making of Bangkok as the capital city of Siam / Melody Rod-ari -- Monumental perceptions of the Tiwanaku landscape / Alexei Vranich -- The Inka capital Cusco as the model of an imperial cultural landscape / Jessica Joyce Christie -- Making landfall : anchoring authority in the public and private political sphere of the basin of Mexico / Eulogio Guzmán -- Provincial capital vs. peasant capital : a subaltern perspective on urban rise and fall from grace / Anne Parmly Toxey -- La Parola al Piccone : demonstrations of fascism at the Imperial Fora and the mausoleum of Augustus / Stephanie Zeier Pilat -- Tehran : a revolution in making / Talinn Grigor -- Conclusions : Ontological relations and the spatial politics of capital cities / Jelena Bogdanović, Jessica Joyce Christie, and Eulogio Guzmán.…”
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Capital cities of Arab Islam by Hitti, Philip K. (Philip Khuri), 1886-1978

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Political Landscapes of Capital Cities /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : The spatial turn and political landscapes of capital cities / Eulogio Guzmán, Jessica Joyce Christie, and Jelena Bogdanović -- Akhenaten's Amarna in new kingdom Egypt : relations of landscape and ideology / Jessica Joyce Christie -- "Memorials of the ability of them all" : tetrarchic displays in the Roman Forum's central area / Gregor Kalas -- The relational spiritual geopolitics of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire / Jelena Bogdanović -- Beyond the ashes : the making of Bangkok as the capital city of Siam / Melody Rod-ari -- Monumental perceptions of the Tiwanaku landscape / Alexei Vranich -- The Inka capital Cusco as the model of an imperial cultural landscape / Jessica Joyce Christie -- Making landfall : anchoring authority in the public and private political sphere of the basin of Mexico / Eulogio Guzmán -- Provincial capital vs. peasant capital : a subaltern perspective on urban rise and fall from grace / Anne Parmly Toxey -- La Parola al Piccone : demonstrations of fascism at the Imperial Fora and the mausoleum of Augustus / Stephanie Zeier Pilat -- Tehran : a revolution in making / Talinn Grigor -- Conclusions : Ontological relations and the spatial politics of capital cities / Jelena Bogdanović, Jessica Joyce Christie, and Eulogio Guzmán.…”
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Finance and governance of capital cities in federal systems

Subjects: “…Capitals (Cities) Case studies.…”
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The capital of the Yuan Dynasty / by Chen, Gaohua

Subjects: “…Capitals (Cities) China History.…”
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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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Athens from 1456 to 1920 : the town under ottoman rule and the 19th-century capital city / by Karidis, Dimitris N.

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Power and architecture : the construction of capitals and the politics of space /

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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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Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities /

Table of Contents: “…National projects in a postcolonial capital city : The example of Yaounde /…”
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Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities /

Table of Contents: “…National projects in a postcolonial capital city : The example of Yaounde /…”
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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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Hub cities in the knowledge economy : seaports, airports, brainports /

Table of Contents: “…Malecki -- Urban and regional analysis and the digital revolution : challenges and opportunities / Emmanouil Tranos, Peter Nijkamp -- Mediating the city : the role of planned media cities in geographies the creative industry activity / Oli Mould -- Agglomeration and knowledge in european regional growth / Teodora Dogaru, Frank van Oort, Dario Diodato, Mark Thissen -- Types of hub cities and their effects on urban creative economies / Zachary P. Neal -- Capital cities as knowledge hubs : the economic geography of homeland security contracting / Heike Mayer, Margaret Cowell.…”
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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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