The postmodern urban condition

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The postmodern urban condition

Michael J. Dear

Blackwell Publishers, 2000

  • : pbk

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"This publication was supported by Southern California Studies Centee [i.e. Center] of the University of Southern California"

Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN 9780631209874

内容説明

This book will change the way we understand cities. It not only provides readers with an introduction to cities and urbanism in the postmodern world but also overturns many common assumptions about urban structure. Dear's analysis combines concepts of postmodernism, space, and the urban to trace the genesis of a postmodern urban condition. He provides an understanding of the intellectual, moral and political consequences of postmodernism and an evaluation of the role of space and place in contemporary social theory and philosophy.The book's introductory chapters lay out in a concise manner the principal themes in urban theory, postmodern thought, and spatial analysis. From this, Dear constructs the fabric of a postmodern urbanism, employing the precepts of Henri Lefebvre and Fredric Jameson, together with a careful reading of the landscapes of contemporary cities, including the prototypical postmodern metropolis of Los Angeles among others.In the book's final section, Dear examines some consequences of postmodern urbanism, and begins the task of defining an urban agenda for the twenty-first century. He shows how urban studies have been transformed by postmodernism, and builds a postmodern politics that encompasses the individual and the global. Drawing as much from fiction and film, politics and history, architecture and cultural studies, as from urbanism and geography, Dear presents his vision of a twenty-first century dominated by global megacities and uncovers new ways of understanding how cities are made.

目次

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.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780631209881

内容説明

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.

目次

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.

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