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Challenges the assumption that hybrid peoples create hybrid places and hybrid places house hybrid people and suggests that hybrid environments do not always accommodate pluralistic tendencies or multicultural practices.

Table of Contents

Preface Hybrid Culture/Hybrid Urbanism: Pandora's Box of the "Third Place" by Nezar Alsayyad Identity and Tradition in Premodern Urbanism Cross-Cultural Currents: Swahili Urbanism in the Late Middle Ages by Thomas R. Gensheimer Orchestrating Difference, Performing identity: Urban Space and Public Rituals in Nineteenth-Century Izmir by Sibel Zandi-Sayek California Chinatowns: Built Environments Expressing the Hybrid Culture of Chinese Americans by Christopher L. Yip A Colonial Portrait of Jerusalem: British Architecture in Mandate-Era Palestine by Ron Fuchs and Gilbert Herbert Modernity, Globalization and Urban Form Stages of Globalization in the African Context: Mombasa by Ali A. Mazrui Rethinking Heritage Politics in a Global Context: A View from Istanbul by Ayfer Bartu Learning From Chinatown: The Search for a Modern Chinese Architectural Identity, 1911-1998 by Anne-Marie Broudehoux Building Culture in Divided Berlin: Globalization and the Cold War by Greg Castillo Porous Boundaries: Fence Patterns and Mexican-American Identity in San Antonio, Texas by Robert Mugerauer The Reverse Side of the World: Identity, Space, and Power by Ananya Roy Selected Bibliography Index

About the Author

NEZAR ALSAYYAD is Professor of Architecture and Planning and Chair of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California—Berkeley. He has been director of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments and chief editor of its journal, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review since 1988. His published books include Cities and Caliphs (Greenwood, 1991) and Forms of Dominance (1993).

Reviews

?Hybrid Urbanism provides one of the best summaries of the literature on identity discourse and the built environment that I have seen to date....This stimulating book illustrates the complexity of identity in relation to the built environment. The book should be on any graduate course reading list that deals with difference, identity, landscape, representation, the built environment, hybridity, multiculturalism, and so on.?-International Planning Studies

"Hybrid Urbanism provides one of the best summaries of the literature on identity discourse and the built environment that I have seen to date....This stimulating book illustrates the complexity of identity in relation to the built environment. The book should be on any graduate course reading list that deals with difference, identity, landscape, representation, the built environment, hybridity, multiculturalism, and so on."-International Planning Studies