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Culture and mobility /
What connects the Baltimore Washington International Airport and South Korea's Songdo International Business District? What are the cultural narratives that unfold from their bold visions of mobility and of the city in transit and transition? Put another way, what are the relations between mode...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Heidelberg, Germany :
Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH,
2013.
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| Colección: | Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie ;
Bd. 15. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | What connects the Baltimore Washington International Airport and South Korea's Songdo International Business District? What are the cultural narratives that unfold from their bold visions of mobility and of the city in transit and transition? Put another way, what are the relations between modernity, mobile lifestyles, and urban spaces as we move deeper into what the French sociologist Marc Augé has called the age of 'supermodernity'? Perhaps more importantly, are there alternative ways of thinking about mobility and the future of society in a rapidly shrinking, globally interconnected and, at. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (152 pages) : illustrations (some color), photographs. |
| ISBN: | 3825373886 9783825373887 |