The Postmodern Urban Condition
1st Edition
Published on 22. November 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-631-20988-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book will change the way we understand cities. It provides readers with not only an introduction to cities and urbanism in the postmodern world but also overturns many common assumptions about urban structure.
Reviews / Votes
"An instant classic that belongs in every college and research library in the English-speaking world." CHOICE"...a thoughtful, wide ranging, and ardent analysis of urbanisation at the end of the millenium." Mike Samers, University of Liverpool.
"Michael Dear's book has surely achieved its objective: to be not only provocative, but also deeply engaging, its evocations and intellectual traces raising issues of the greatest importance for reflection and action by urban scholars and other citizens." ANNALS of the Association of American Geographers
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Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 173 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
617 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-20988-1 (9780631209881)
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Michael J. Dear
The Postmodern Urban Condition
Book
06/1999
Blackwell Publishers
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Person
Michael Dearis Professor of Geography and Director of the Southern California Studies Center at the University of Southern California. He was recently a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and held a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1989. He received Honors from the Association of American Geographers in 1995. He is the author/editor of ten books including Rethinking Los Angeles (with H. Eric Schockman and Greg Hise, 1996) and Urban Latino Cultures-La vida latina en LA (with Gustavo Leclerc and Paul Villa, 1999)as well as over 100 journal articles and reports.
Content
Preface. Acknowledgements.
Introduction.
1. Taking Los Angeles Seriously.
2. Mapping the Postmodern.
3. Postmodern Bloodlines: From Lefebvre to Jameson.
4. The Premature Demise of Postmodern Urbanism.
5. Reading the Modern City: A Colonial History of Los Angeles 1781-1991.
6. Deconstructing Urban Planning.
7. Postmodern Urbanism.
8. A Tale of Two Cities 1. Tijuana.
9. Film, Architecture and Filmspace.
10. A Tale of Two Cities 2. Las Vegas.
11. From Sidewalk to Cyberspace (and Back to Earth Again).
12. The Personal Politics of Postmodernity.
13. The Power of Place.
14. The Geopolitics of Postmodernity.
15. Epistemological Politics.
Epilogue: Beyond Postmodernism.
A Beginner's Guide to Postmodernism.
Index.
Introduction.
1. Taking Los Angeles Seriously.
2. Mapping the Postmodern.
3. Postmodern Bloodlines: From Lefebvre to Jameson.
4. The Premature Demise of Postmodern Urbanism.
5. Reading the Modern City: A Colonial History of Los Angeles 1781-1991.
6. Deconstructing Urban Planning.
7. Postmodern Urbanism.
8. A Tale of Two Cities 1. Tijuana.
9. Film, Architecture and Filmspace.
10. A Tale of Two Cities 2. Las Vegas.
11. From Sidewalk to Cyberspace (and Back to Earth Again).
12. The Personal Politics of Postmodernity.
13. The Power of Place.
14. The Geopolitics of Postmodernity.
15. Epistemological Politics.
Epilogue: Beyond Postmodernism.
A Beginner's Guide to Postmodernism.
Index.