The Plaza * The Ottoman Cafe * The Seaport * The Christian Alley * The French Zone * Hill and Plain * The Market * Pleasure Boulevards
Preface -- The public plaza -- The Ottoman café -- The seaport -- The Christian quarter -- The French district -- The hill and the plain -- The market -- The boulevards
Summary
The first volume in the groundbreaking new series Theory Around the World, Neighborhood and Boulevard combines the styles of memoir, history, anthropology, and theory to develop an innovative reflection on the materiality of culture. Through its style and content, the text challenges the Orientalist bifurcation between tradition and modernity in the Arab world, revealing instead tradition's own dynamism and its coexistence alongside modernity