Postmodern Cities and Spaces - Softcover

 
9780631194040: Postmodern Cities and Spaces
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0631194045 ISBN 13: 9780631194040
Verlag: Blackwell Publishers, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

This pioneering and thought-provoking book looks at the influences of discourses of the postmodern on thinking about spatiality, contemporary cities and questions of power in urban life.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sophie Watson is Professor of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney.

Katherine Gibson is Director of the Centre for Women's Studies and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University, Melbourne.

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Discourses of the postmodern are having profound effects on a range of urban practices, from philosophy and political economy to architecture and planning. This provocative 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 an exciting group of writers and critics from diverse disciplinary and geographical backgrounds. Included in the collection are dynamic perspectives from feminism and psychoanalysis. The book 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. Incorporating a wide range of focuses for the contemporary urban debate, this is a pioneering contribution to the discourses surrounding postmodernist culture and postfordist space. It is essential reading for anyone interested in urban, cultural or aesthetic studies.

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Verlag
Blackwell Publishers
Erscheinungsdatum
1995
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0631194045
ISBN 13 
9780631194040
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
Herausgeber
Watson Sophie, Gibson Katherine
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