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Author : Sophie Watson,Katherine Gibson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : OCLC:1319414592
Author : Sophie Watson,Katherine Gibson
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0631194037
This sparkling collection takes a positive rather than a celebratory approach to the contemporary city. Its intention is to think up new strategies of inclusion which can be used to combat the strategies of inclusion deployed in existing sociospatial orders. A particular feature of the collection is its attempt to take in postcolonial situations in cities outside of the standard western examples.--Nigel Thrift, University of Bristol
Author : Markus Widmer
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640202720
Essay from the year 1998 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1 (A), University of Aberdeen (English Department), course: Read the City - Read the Text, 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Edward W. Soja called Los Angeles 'the quintessential postmodern metropolis'. This, however, shall not be the premise of my argument in this essay, because of the obvious danger of circularity. Yet I will use postmodern critics and compare my findings to postmodern models of culture, space and society. I will not discuss the term postmodernism itself, simply because the range of this essay does not allow my entering this ongoing debate. The term will be used as denoting both a period, beginning, for my purposes, in the 1960s, and a theory of cultural tendencies in contemporary life. For this essay, I will assume that postmodernism is a fact, a part of everyday reality, and that it differs substantially from modernism. The main body of this essay will consist of a discussion of the fundamental factors which define Los Angeles as postmodern space. I will focus on particularities that distinguish Los Angeles from other cities, most of all from those which have not yet crossed the threshold of postmodernity. Firstly, I will investigate the geographical instability of the city; the fact that it is threatened to be annihilated by natural forces such as earthquakes and the desert. Secondly, I will address the idea of the city as a desert, its horizontality, its vastness, its lack of centre. Thirdly, the structure on this flat surface will be addressed; the freeways as an arterial network, and the structure of segregating walls, both literal and metaphorical. Finally, I will conclude by investigating the parallels between the idea of instability that underlies all of the factors I discuss, and the notion of the unstable in postmodernism.
Author : Michael J. Dear,Steven Flusty
Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0631217827
"Documents the emergence and impact of postmodern thought in human geography. Intended as a companion volume to Michael Dear's The postmodern urban condition (Blackwell, 2000)."--Pref.
Author : Madhu Dubey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226167282
Signs and Cities is the first book to consider what it means to speak of a postmodern moment in African-American literature. Dubey argues that for African-American studies, postmodernity best names a period, beginning in the early 1970s, marked by acute disenchantment with the promises of urban modernity and of print literacy. Dubey shows how black novelists from the last three decades have reconsidered the modern urban legacy and thus articulated a distinctly African-American strain of postmodernism. She argues that novelists such as Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Ishmael Reed, Sapphire, and John Edgar Wideman probe the disillusionment of urban modernity through repeated recourse to tropes of the book and scenes of reading and writing. Ultimately, she demonstrates that these writers view the book with profound ambivalence, construing it as an urban medium that cannot recapture the face-to-face communities assumed by oral and folk forms of expression.
Author : Kate Darian-Smith,Liz Gunner,Sarah Nuttall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134804559
Text, Theory, Space is a landmark in post-colonial criticism and theory. Focusing on two white settler societies, South Africa and Australia, the contributors investigate the meaning of 'the South' as an aesthetic, political, geographical and cultural space. Drawing upon a wide range of disciplines which include literature, history, urban and cultural geography, politics and anthropology, the contributors examine crucial issues including: * defining what 'the South' encompasses * investigating ideas of space, history, land and landscape * claiming, naming and possessing land * national and personal boundaries * questions of race, gender and nationalism
Author : Michael Pacione
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Urban geography
ISBN : 9780415462013
This is the most comprehensive and readable book on urban geography in the array of contemporary literature on the subject.
Author : Paula Geyh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135852191
This book is about the contemporary city and those who live in it. It is thus also about the urban world of the era (extending roughly from the 1960s to the present) that we see as postmodern, and specifically about how the postmodern city is changing under the impact of globalization and new information and communication technologies. In particular, Geyh explores how the urban spaces of postmodernity (parks, plazas, streets, sidewalks) and postmodern urban subjectivities and communities respond to and create each other – how they become mutually constructing. While there is much in this book about what makes a city "postmodern," its primary focus is on how the postmodern city is experienced by its inhabitants, and in this respect the book is also a study of everyday life in the postmodern era. As such, it deals not only with the ways in which the postmodern city has developed out of economic, technological, political, and cultural structures that are different from those of the modern city, but also with how the postmodern city changes our ways of knowing and experiencing the world and ourselves as postmodern urban subjects, as citizens of postmodernity.
Author : Prof David Herbert,Dr Colin Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134089413
This is the third major revision of a text first published in 1982 with the title Urban Geography: A First Approach and in 1990 as Cities in Space: City as Place. The study of urban geography remains an important part of the geographical curriculum both in schools and in higher education. This book analyses life in an urban society and in a world which is being transformed by the processes of urbanization: to study urban geography is to study environments and phenomena significant to our everyday lives. This is an introductory text which aims to present both more traditional and newer approaches to urban geography in an accessible and educational way.
Author : Graham Ward
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0415202558
An exciting contribution to the Radical Orthodoxy series, Graham Ward fills a major void in theological literature by offering the first detailed theological response to urban living for thirty-five years.
Author : Neil Leach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134638727
An edited volume containing contributions from eminent theorists across visual culture, architecture, sociology, art, philosophy and US studies - including Andrew Benjamin, Barry Curtis, Neil Leach, Steven Pile and David Frisby.
Author : Miodrag Mitrašinović,Vikas Mehta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351202534
Recent global appropriations of public spaces through urban activism, public uprising, and political protest have brought back democratic values, beliefs, and practices that have been historically associated with cities. Given the aggressive commodification of public re- sources, public space is critically important due to its capacity to enable forms of public dis- course and social practice which are fundamental for the well-being of democratic societies. Public Space Reader brings together public space scholarship by a cross-disciplinary group of academics and specialists whose essays consider fundamental questions: What is public space and how does it manifest larger cultural, social, and political processes? How are public spaces designed, socially and materially produced, and managed? How does this impact the nature and character of public experience? What roles does it play in the struggles for the just city, and the Right to The City? What critical participatory approaches can be employed to create inclusive public spaces that respond to the diverse needs, desires, and aspirations of individuals and communities alike? What are the critical global and comparative perspectives on public space that can enable further scholarly and professional work? And, what are the futures of public space in the face of global pandemics, such as COVID-19? The readers of this volume will be rewarded with an impressive array of perspectives that are bound to expand critical understanding of public space.
Author : David Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134797967
The Cinematic City offers an innovative and thought-provoking insight into cityscape and screenscape and their inter-connection. Illustrated throughout with movie stills, a diverse selection of films (from 'Bladerunner' to 'Little Caesar'), genres, cities and historical periods are examined by leading names in the field. The key dimensions of film and urban theory are introduced before detailed analysis of the various cinematic forms which relate most significantly to the city. From early cinema and documentary film, to film noir, 'New Wave' and 'postmodern cinema', the contributors provide a wealth of empirical material and illustration whilst drawing on the theoretical insights of contemporary feminism, Benjamin, Baudrillard, Foucault, Lacan, and others. The Cinematic City shows how the city has been undeniably shaped by the cinematic form, and how cinema owes much of its nature to the historical development of urban space. Engaging with current theoretical debates, this is a book that is set to change the way in which we think about both the nature of the city and film. Contributors: Giuliana Bruno, Iain Chambers, Marcus Doel, David Clarke, Anthony Easthope, Elisabeth Mahoney, Will Straw, Stephen Ward, John Gold, James Hay, Rob Lapsley, Frank Krutnik
Author : B. Blanke,R. Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999-08-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780333982273
This volume explores a range of current problems faced by cities in Germany and England and reflects on constructive strategies for enhancing the quality of life for the citizens of twenty-first century urban environments. The chapters of the book are based on papers given at a symposium organised by the Universities of Bristol and Hannover in 1997 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of twinning between the cities of Hannover and Bristol.
Author : Rafael F. Narváez,Leslie R. Malland
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848884922
This book considers various ways in which the body is, and has been, addressed and depicted overtime while also working to redefine the body and its relation to historical time and social space.