Postmodern Cities and Spaces
Published on 16. December 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-631-19404-0 (ISBN)
Description
Discourses of the postmodern are having profound effects on a range of urban practices, from philosophy and political economy to architecture and planning. This collection charts the confrontations between a postmodern aesthetic (and its influence upon architectural, artistic and cultural styles), a socio-economic 'condition' of postmodernity (overlain upon a global economic restructuring of space), and a postmodern paradigm of knowledge (heavily influenced by poststructuralism). "Postmodern Cities and Spaces" brings together a group of writers and critics from diverse disciplinary and geographical backgrounds. It links the architectural and the physical, the aesthetic and the sexual, and the real and imaginary, within a broad discussion of postmodern cities and spaces. The book then examines these urban spaces as a site for 'postmodern politics' - in Bombay, in South Africa, in New York and Los Angeles.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
10 halftones, 5 figures
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
563 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-631-19404-0 (9780631194040)
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Content
1. Postmodern Spaces, Cities and Politics: Kathie Gibson and Sophie Watson Part One: Postmodern Space 2. Heterotopologies: A Remembrance of Other Spaces in the Citadel-La: Edward W. Soja 3. Discourse, Discontinuity, Difference: The Question of 'Other' Spaces: Benjamin Genocchio 4. Women, Chora, Dwelling: Elizabeth Grosz 5. The Invisible Flaneur: Elizabeth Wilson 6. 'Drunk with the Glitter': Consuming Spaces and Sexual Geographies: Gillian Swanson 7. (Not) Belonging in Postmodern Space: John Lechte 8. Imaginary Cities: Images of Postmodernity: Paul Patton Part Two: Postmodern Cities 9. Postmodern Urbanization: The Six Restructurings of Los Angeles: Edward W. Soja 10. Under the Volcano: Postmodern Space in Hong Kong: Alexander Cuthbert 11. Gay Nights and Kingston Town: Representations of Kingston, Jamaica: Diane J. Austin-Broos 12. Distant Places, Other Cities? Urban Life in Contemporary Papua New Guinea: John Connell and John Lea Part Three: Postmodern Politics 13. On the Problems and Prospects of Overcoming Segregation and Fragmentation in Southern Africa's Cities in the Post-Modern Era: Alan Mabin 14. Postmodern Bombay: Fractured Discourses: Jim Masselos 15. The Dark Side of Modernisn: Planning as Control of an Ethnic Minority: Oren Yiftachel 16. Peter Marcuse 17. Postmodern Politics and Planning: A Postscript: Kathie Gibson and Sophie Watson.