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Postmodern cities and spaces

Title: Postmodern cities and spaces / edited by Sophie Watson and Katherine Gibson.
Publication: Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, 1995.

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viii, 269 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

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Contents

1. Postmodern Spaces, Cities and Politics: An Introduction / Katherine Gibson and Sophie Watson -- 2. Heterotopologies: A Remembrance of Other Spaces in the Citadel-LA / Edward W. Soja -- 3. Discourse, Discontinuity, Difference: The Question of 'Other' Spaces / Benjamin Genocchio -- 4. Women, Chora, Dwelling / Elizabeth Grosz -- 5. The Invisible Flaneur / Elizabeth Wilson -- 6. 'Drunk with the Glitter': Consuming Spaces and Sexual Geographies / Gillian Swanson -- 7. (Not) Belonging in Postmodern Space / John Lechte -- 8. Imaginary Cities: Images of Postmodernity / Paul Patton -- 9. Postmodern Urbanization: The Six Restructurings of Los Angeles / Edward W. Soja -- 10. Under the Volcano: Postmodern Space in Hong Kong / Alexander Cuthbert -- 11. Gay Nights and Kingston Town: Representations of Kingston, Jamaica / Diane J. Austin-Broos -- 12. Distant Places, Other Cities? Urban Life in Contemporary Papua New Guinea / John Connell and John Lea.
13. On the Problems and Prospects of Overcoming Segregation and Fragmentation in Southern Africa's Cities in the Postmodern Era / Alan Mabin -- 14. Postmodern Bombay: Fractured Discourses / Jim Masselos -- 15. The Dark Side of Modernism: Planning as Control of an Ethnic Minority / Oren Yiftachel -- 16. Not Chaos, but Walls: Postmodernism and the Partitioned City / Peter Marcuse -- 17. Postmodern Politics and Planning: A Postscript / Sophie Watson and Katherine Gibson.

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94015841

OCLC

ocm30318718

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Columbia University Libraries