[PDF] The Postmodern Urban Condition eBook

Author : Michael J. Dear
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,78 MB
Release : 2001-02-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780631209881

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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.

Author : Ghent Urban Studies Team
Publisher : 010 Publishers
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 37,86 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Areas metropolitanas
ISBN : 9789064503559

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What does the Western city at the end of the twentieth century look like? How did the modern metropolis of congestion and density turn into a posturban or even postsuburban cityscape? What are edge cities and technoburbs? How has the social composition of cities changed in the postwar era? What do gated communities tell us about social fragmentation? Is public space in the contemporary city being privatized and militarized? How can the urban self still be defined? What role does consumer aestheticism have to play in this? These and many more questions are addressed by this uniquely conceived multidisciplinary study. The Urban Condition seeks to interfere in current debates over the future and interpretation of our urban landscapes by reuniting studies of the city as a physical and material phenomenon and as a cultural and mental (arte)fact. The Ghent Urban Studies Team responsible for the writing and editing of this volume is directed by Kristiaan Versluys and Dirk De Meyer at the University of Ghent, Belgium. It is an interdisciplinary research team of young academics that further consists of Kristiaan Borret, Bart Eeckhout, Steven Jacobs, and Bart Keunen. The collective expertise of GUST ranges from architectural theory, urban planning, and art history to philosophy, literary criticism and cultural theory.

Author : Nan Ellin
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 36,49 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781568981352

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A comprehensive guide to the scope of contemporary urban design theory in Europe and the USA.

Author : Leandro Medrano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,21 MB
Release : 2021-04-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1000363856

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This book explores new architectural and design perspectives on the contemporary urban condition. While architects and urban designers have long maintained that their actions, drawings, and buildings are “post-critical,” this book seeks to expand the critical dimension of architecture and urbanism. In a series of historical and theoretical studies, this book examines how the materialities, forms, and practices of architecture and urban design can act as a critique towards the new urban condition. It proposes not only new concepts and theories but also instruments of analysis and reflection to better understand the current counter-hegemonic tendencies in both disciplinary strategies and appropriation tactics. The diversely international selection of chapters, from Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United States, and the Netherlands, combine different theoretical and empirical perspectives into a new analysis of the city and architecture. Demonstrating the need for new critical urban and architectural thinking that engages with the challenges and processes of the contemporary urban condition, this volume will be a thought-provoking read for academics and students in architecture, urban design, geography, political science, and more.

Author : Nan Ellin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 30,53 MB
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1135436649

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Integral Urbanism is an ambitious and forward-looking theory of urbanism that offers a new model of urban life. Nan Ellin's model stands as an antidote to the pervasive problems engendered by modern and postmodern urban planning and architecture: sprawl, anomie, a pervasive culture - and architecture - of fear in cities, and a disregard for environmental issues. Instead of the reactive and escapist tendencies characterizing so much contemporary urban development, Ellin champions an 'integral' approach that reverses the fragmentation of our landscapes and lives through proactive design solutions.

Author : Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780816611737

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In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity.

Author : Sophie Watson
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,90 MB
Release : 1995-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780631194033

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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 : Paula Geyh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 15,32 MB
Release : 2009-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135852197

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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.