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Imagining cities : scripts, signs, memory /
The city has always been a locus of research and discussion within the debates of modernity and, more recently, postmodernity. This volume brings together some of the most recent and exciting work on the city from within sociology and cultural studies. Scripts, Sign's and Memories is organized...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2018.
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| Colección: | Routledge library edition. British sociological association ;
v. 20. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Imagining cities / Sallie Westwood and John Williams
- - Part I. Theorising cities. 1. Six discourses on the postmetropolis / Edward W. Soja
- 2. Imagining the real-time city: telecommunications, urban paradigms and the future of cities / Stephen Graham
- 3. Chaotic places or complex places? Cities in a post-industrial era / David Byrne
- - Part II. Racial/spatial imaginaries. 4. Out of the melting pot into the fire next time: imagining the east end as city, body, text / Phil Cohen
- 5. White governmentality: urbanism, nationalism, racism / Barnor Hesse
- 6. Migrant spaces and settlers' time: forming and de-forming an inner city / Max Farrar
- - Part III. Nostalgia/memory. 7. Looking backward, nostalgia and the city / Elizabeth Wilson
- 8. Authenticity and suburbia / David Chaney
- 9. 'Proper Little Mesters': nostalgia and protest masculinity in de-industrialised Sheffield / Ian Taylor and Ruth Jamieson
- - Part IV. Narrating cityscapes. 10. This, here, now: imagining the modern city / James Donald
- 11. (Re) placing the city: cultural relocation and the city as centre / Tim Hall
- 12. Anglicising the American dream: tragedy, farce and the 'postmodern' city / Julie Charlesworth and Allan Cochrane
- - Part V. Virtual cities. 13. Cyberpunk as social theory: William Gibson and the sociological imagination / Roger Burrows
- 14. Cities, subjectivity and cyberspace / Graham B. Mcbeath and Stephen A. Webb.