TY - BOOK AU - Dear,M.J. TI - The postmodern urban condition SN - 0631209883 AV - HT384.U52 L674 2000 U1 - 307.760979494 PY - 2000/// CY - Oxford, OX., England, Malden, Mass PB - Blackwell KW - Urbanization KW - California KW - Los Angeles KW - Mexico KW - Tijuana (Baja California) KW - Nevada KW - Las Vegas KW - Postmodernism KW - Social aspects KW - Human geography N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-320) and index; List of Figures --; List of Tables --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1; Taking Los Angeles Seriously --; 2; Mapping the Postmodern --; 3; Postmodern Bloodlines: From Lefebvre to Jameson --; 4; The Premature Demise of Postmodern Urbanism --; 5; Reading the Modern City: A Colonial History of Los Angeles 1781-1991 --; 6; Deconstructing Urban Planning --; 7; Postmodern Urbanism --; 8; A Tale of Two Cities 1. Tijuana --; 9; Film, Architecture and Filmspace --; 10; A Tale of Two Cities 2. Las Vegas --; 11; From Sidewalk to Cyberspace (and back to Earth again) --; 12; The Personal Politics of Postmodernity --; 13; The Power of Place --; 14; The Geopolitics of Postmodernity --; 15; Epistemological Politics --; Epilogue: Beyond Postmodernism --; A Beginner's Guide to Postmodernism --; Index ER -