Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-224) and index.

Introduction : globalisation, urbanism and cosmopolitanism fever -- The mirage at the heart of the myth? thinking about the white city -- After the cosmopolitan? The limits of the multicultural city and the mutability of racism -- The ghetto : knowing your place and the performative cartographies of racial subordination -- Ethnic entrepreneurs and street rebels : looking inside the inner city -- The street : street sensibility? -- The cultural quarter : globalisation, hybridity and curating exotica -- Tagging the city : graffiti practice and transcultural communication -- The cartographies of community safety : mapping danger and rumours of risk -- The plan : knowing urbanism : between the allure of the cosmopolitan and the horror of the postcolony.

All age.