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The Postmodern Urban Condition Michael J. Dear

The Postmodern Urban Condition By Michael J. Dear

The Postmodern Urban Condition by Michael J. Dear

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Summary

* Provides an new way of understanding cities. * Gives students a critical history of postmodernism and its consequences for cities and spaces. * Reveals the importance of space and place in our understanding of social process. * Looks ahead to the urban agenda for the twenty--first century.

The Postmodern Urban Condition Summary

The Postmodern Urban Condition by Michael J. Dear

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.

The Postmodern Urban Condition Reviews

"An instant classic that belongs in every college and research library in the English--speaking world." CHOICE "...a thoughtful, wide ranging, and ardent analysis of urbanisation at the end of the millenium." Mike Samers, University of Liverpool. "Michael Deara s book has surely achieved its objective: to be not only provocative, but also deeply engaging, its evocations and intellectual traces raising issues of the greatest importance for reflection and action by urban scholars and other citizens." ANNALS of the Association of American Geographers

About Michael J. Dear

Michael Dearis Professor of Geography and Director of the Southern California Studies Center at the University of Southern California. He was recently a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and held a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1989. He received Honors from the Association of American Geographers in 1995. He is the author/editor of ten books including Rethinking Los Angeles (with H. Eric Schockman and Greg Hise, 1996) and Urban Latino Cultures--La vida latina en LA (with Gustavo Leclerc and Paul Villa, 1999)as well as over 100 journal articles and reports.

Table of Contents

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 Beginnera s Guide to Postmodernism. Index.

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GOR003881355
9780631209881
0631209883
The Postmodern Urban Condition by Michael J. Dear
Michael J. Dear
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
2000-11-22
352
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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