The postmodern urban condition /
Michael J. Dear.
- xii, 337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-320) and index.
List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Taking Los Angeles Seriously -- Mapping the Postmodern -- Postmodern Bloodlines: From Lefebvre to Jameson -- The Premature Demise of Postmodern Urbanism -- Reading the Modern City: A Colonial History of Los Angeles 1781-1991 -- Deconstructing Urban Planning -- Postmodern Urbanism -- A Tale of Two Cities 1. Tijuana -- Film, Architecture and Filmspace -- A Tale of Two Cities 2. Las Vegas -- From Sidewalk to Cyberspace (and back to Earth again) -- The Personal Politics of Postmodernity -- The Power of Place -- The Geopolitics of Postmodernity -- Epistemological Politics -- Epilogue: Beyond Postmodernism -- A Beginner's Guide to Postmodernism -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
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