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Introduction: Globalizing downtown / Gary W. McDonogh and Marina Peterson
Toward a genealogy of downtowns / Robert Rotenberg
From Peking to Beijing: production of centrality in the global age / Xuefei Ren
Simulations of Barcelona: urban projects in port spaces (1981-2002) / Francesc Magrinyà and Gaspar Maza
Urbanist ideology and the production of space in the United Arab Emirates: an anthropological critique / Ahmed Kanna
Reaching for Dubai: Nashville dreams of a twenty-first-century skyline / Richard Lloyd and Brian D. Christens
From national utopia to elite enclave: "economic realities" and resistance in the reconstruction of Beirut / Najib Hourani
When the film festival comes to (down)town: transnational circuits, tourism, and the urban economy of images / William Cunningham Bissell
The future of the past: world heritage, national identity, and urban centrality in late socialist Cuba / Matthew J. Hill
Utopia/dystopia: art and downtown development in Los Angeles / Marina Peterson
"Slum-free Mumbai" and other entrepreneurial strategies in the making of Mumbai's global downtown / Liza Weinstein
Downtown as brand, downtown as land: urban elites and neoliberal development in contemporary New York City / Julian Brash
Beside downtown: global Chinatowns / Gary W. McDonogh and Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong.
Toward a genealogy of downtowns / Robert Rotenberg
From Peking to Beijing: production of centrality in the global age / Xuefei Ren
Simulations of Barcelona: urban projects in port spaces (1981-2002) / Francesc Magrinyà and Gaspar Maza
Urbanist ideology and the production of space in the United Arab Emirates: an anthropological critique / Ahmed Kanna
Reaching for Dubai: Nashville dreams of a twenty-first-century skyline / Richard Lloyd and Brian D. Christens
From national utopia to elite enclave: "economic realities" and resistance in the reconstruction of Beirut / Najib Hourani
When the film festival comes to (down)town: transnational circuits, tourism, and the urban economy of images / William Cunningham Bissell
The future of the past: world heritage, national identity, and urban centrality in late socialist Cuba / Matthew J. Hill
Utopia/dystopia: art and downtown development in Los Angeles / Marina Peterson
"Slum-free Mumbai" and other entrepreneurial strategies in the making of Mumbai's global downtown / Liza Weinstein
Downtown as brand, downtown as land: urban elites and neoliberal development in contemporary New York City / Julian Brash
Beside downtown: global Chinatowns / Gary W. McDonogh and Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong.