| Description |
viii, 269 pages : maps ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
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 -- |
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Not chaos, but walls: postmodernism and the partitioned city / Peter Marcuse -- Postmodern politics and planning: a postscript / Sophie Watson, Katherine Gibson |
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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 -- |
| Analysis |
Urban regions Sociology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Cities and towns.
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Postmodernism -- Social aspects.
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Sociology, Urban.
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Urbanization.
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| Author |
Gibson, Katherine.
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Watson, Sophie.
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| LC no. |
94015841 |
| ISBN |
0631194037 (acid-free paper) |
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0631194045 (paperback: acid-free paper) |
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