Research Catalog

Title

The urban condition : space, community, and self in the contemporary metropolis / written and edited by the Ghent Urban Studies Team (GUST).

Publication

Rotterdam : 010 Publishers, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Ghent Urban Studies Team.

Description

447 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Sociology, Urban
• Public spaces
• Cities and towns > Case studies
• Metropolitan areas > Case studies
• urban sociology
• Cities and towns
• Metropolitan areas
• Public spaces
• Sociology, Urban
• Metropole
• Stadtsoziologie
• Urbanisatie
• Stadssociologie
• Metropolen
• Postmodernisme
• SOCIOLOGIA URBANA
• ÁREAS METROPOLITANAS
• ESPAÇO URBANO

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Case studies.
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Part one: Theory -- Chapter one: Space -- 1. From density to dispersal -- 2. The complexities of posturban space -- 3. The virtualization of the metropolis -- Chapter two: Community -- 1. Individualization and community building -- 2. The contemporary social landscape -- 3. Recent transformations or urban public space -- 3 Chapter three: Self -- 1. Classical perspective on the urban self -- 2. Contemporary variations on a theme: the bodily experience of urban space -- 3. Constructions of the symbolic metropolis -- Part two: Case studies -- From Hampstead to Houston / Alan Hollinghurst -- Agonizing Arcadia: notes on postwar architecture in Los Angeles / Dirk de Meyer -- CityWalk: Los(t) Angeles in the shape of mall / Kevin R. McNamara -- Race, cars, film, and Los Angeles as (post)modern city / Jude Davies -- The "middle landscape" and the myth of mobility: coming home in commuter country / Ren ̌Boomkens -- Enclaves: cruising through the city of minorities / Cino Zucchi -- The "void" as a productive concept for urban public space / Kristiaan Borret -- The flight forward of Rem Koolhaas / Lieven de Cauter -- Representations of the underclass: race, poverty, and the postindustrial ghetto / Liam Kennedy -- Hospitality as a condition of urbanity: ethnography of a "stopping place" / Anne Gotman
• Downtown Brussels: a portrait / Rudi Laermans -- The invisible work of art / Sven Lẗticken -- Between E.U.R. and L.A.: townscapes in the work of Michelangelo Antonioni / Steven Jacobs -- "Night on Earth": urban practices and the blindness of metatheory / Trui Vetters -- The decline of the city as modernist symbol: city images in postmodern urban fiction and in collective memory / Bart Keunen -- The street as theater: self-presentation and specularity in three literary texts on New York / Kristiaan Versluys -- Down these (gender-divided and ethnically fractured) mean streets: the urban thriller in the age of multiculturalism and minority writing / Christophe den Tandt -- The transformation of cyberspace in William Gibson's "Neuromancer": from highrise grid to hive / Maarten Delbeke.

ISBN

• 9064503559
• 9789064503559

LCCN

00348448

OCLC

• ocm43547429
• 43547429
• SCSB-14533345

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library