Title & Author:

Postmodern cities and spaces / edited by Sophie Watson and Katherine Gibson.

Publication:

Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, 1995.

Description:

viii, 269 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Heterotopologies: a remembrance of other spaces in the citadel-LA / Edward W. Soja -- Discourse, discontinuity, difference: the question of òther' spaces / Benjamin Genocchio -- Women, chora, dwelling / Elizabeth Grosz -- The invisible Flaneur / Elizabeth Wilson -- D̀runk with the glitter': consuming spaces and sexual geographies / Gillian Swanson -- (Not) belonging in postmodern space / John Lechte -- Imaginary cities: images of postmodernity / Paul Patton -- Postmodern urbanization: the six restructurings of Los Angeles / Edward W. Soja.
Under the volcano: postmodern space in Hong Kong / Alexander Cuthbert -- Gay nights and Kingston town: representations of Kingston, Jamaica / Diane J. Austin-Broos -- Distant places, other cities? Urban life in contemporary Papua New Guinea / John Connell, John Lea -- On the problems and prospects of overcoming segregation and fragmentation in Southern Africa's cities in the postmodern era / Alan Mabin -- Postmodern Bombay: fractured discourses / Jim Masselos -- The dark side of modernism: planning as control of an ethnic minority / Oren Yiftachel.
Not chaos, but walls: postmodernism and the partitioned city / Peter Marcuse -- Postmodern politics and planning: a postscript / Sophie Watson, Katherine Gibson.

Summary:

This text charts the confrontations between a "postmodern aesthetic", a "socio-economic `condition' of postmodernity" and a "postmodern paradigm of knowledge". It links the architectural and physical, the aesthetic and the sexual, and the real and the imaginary in a discussion of cities and spaces.

ISBN:

0631194037 (acid-free paper)
9780631194033 (acid-free paper)
0631194045 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780631194040 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Bürger, Christa 1935- Postmoderne
Cities and towns.
Postmodernism Social aspects.
Sociology, Urban.
Cities
Postmodernisme Aspect social.
Sociologie urbaine.
Villes.
cities.
urban sociology.
Stadt
Stadtsoziologie
Raumwahrnehmung
Postmoderne
Steden.
Postmodernisme.
Urban regions Sociology

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Watson, Sophie.
Gibson, Katherine.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 119236
Call No.: ID HT155.P67; ID:95-B180
Status: Available