Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions by Edward W. Soja (Englis

Description: Postmetropolis by Edward W. Soja Critical Studies of Cities and Regions. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This completes Ed Sojas trilogy on urban studies, which began with Postmodern Geographies and continued with Thirdspace. It is the first comprehensive text in the growing field of critical urban studies to deal with the dramatically restructured megacities that have emerged world-wide over the last half of the twentieth-century. Back Cover Postmetropolis completes Edward Sojas trilogy aimed at expanding the scope and critical insight of our spatial imaginations. Applying the theoretical frameworks developed in Postmodern Geographies (1989) and Thirdspace (1996), it is the first comprehensive text in the growing field of critical urban and regional studies to deal with the dramatically restructured megacities that emerged worldwide over the last half of the twentieth century. At its core is a lively discussion of six discourses that have coalesced around explaining what Soja calls the postmetropolitan transition, a major sea change in how we live in cities and experience urbanism as a way of life. To provide depth to these discussions, the book begins with a rethinking of the debates on the origins of cities, the geohistorical evolution of urban form, and the dynamic relations between society and space in the specific context of urban agglomerations. In addition to being an innovative text in urban and regional studies and an insightful application of new approaches to interpreting the spatiality of human life, Postmetropolis is also a book about contemporary Los Angeles, a vivid and far-reaching interpretation of its turbulent recent history and geography. The book concludes with a look back to the civil unrest of 1992 to portray the postmetropolis in explosive crisis as well as to draw some hope for the future based on new coalition-based struggles for spatial justice and regional democracy. Flap Postmetropolis completes Edward Sojas trilogy aimed at expanding the scope and critical insight of our spatial imaginations. Applying the theoretical frameworks developed in Postmodern Geographies (1989) and Thirdspace (1996), it is the first comprehensive text in the growing field of critical urban and regional studies to deal with the dramatically restructured megacities that emerged worldwide over the last half of the twentieth century. At its core is a lively discussion of six discourses that have coalesced around explaining what Soja calls the postmetropolitan transition, a major sea change in how we live in cities and experience urbanism as a way of life. To provide depth to these discussions, the book begins with a rethinking of the debates on the origins of cities, the geohistorical evolution of urban form, and the dynamic relations between society and space in the specific context of urban agglomerations. In addition to being an innovative text in urban and regional studies and an insightful application of new approaches to interpreting the spatiality of human life, Postmetropolis is also a book about contemporary Los Angeles, a vivid and far-reaching interpretation of its turbulent recent history and geography. The book concludes with a look back to the civil unrest of 1992 to portray the postmetropolis in explosive crisis as well as to draw some hope for the future based on new coalition-based struggles for spatial justice and regional democracy. Author Biography Edward W Soja is Professor of Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has written extensively on urban social life, planning and theory. His previous books include Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory (Verso, 1989)and Thirdspace (Blackwell, 1996). Table of Contents List of Illustrations x Preface xii Acknowledgments xix Part I Remapping the Geohistory of Cityspace 1 Introduction 3 Outlining the Geohistory of Cityspace 4 Defining the Conceptual Framework 6 The spatial specificity of urbanism 7 The trialectics of cityspace 10 Synekism: the stimulus of urban agglomeration 12 The regionality of cityspace 16 1 Putting Cities First 19 Re-excavating the Origins of Urbanism 19 The conventional sequence: hunting and gathering – agriculture – villages – cities – states 20 A provocative inversion: putting cities first 24 Learning from Jericho 27 Learning from Çatal HÜyÜk 36 James Mellaart and the urban Neolithic 36 Learning from New Obsidian 42 Learning more from Çatal HÜyÜk 46 2 The Second Urban Revolution 50 The New Urbanization 51 Space, Knowledge, and Power in Sumeria 55 Ur and the New Urbanism 60 Fast Forward >> to the Third Urban Revolution 67 3 The Third Urban Revolution: Modernity and Urban-industrial Capitalism 71 Cityspace and the Succession of Modernities 72 The Rise of the Modern Industrial Metropolis 76 Made in Manchester 78 Remade in Chicago 84 4 Metropolis in Crisis 95 Rehearsing the Break: the Urban Crisis of the 1960s 95 Manuel Castells and the Urban Question 100 David Harveys Social Justice and the City 105 Summarizing the Geohistory of Capitalist Cityspace 109 5 An Introduction to the Conurbation of Greater Los Angeles 117 Los Angeles – from Space: A View from My Window 120 A Perpetual Alternation Between Vision and its Forgetting 121 1870–1900: the WASPing of Los Angeles 123 1900–1920: the Regressive–Progressive Era 127 1920–1940: roaring from war to war 129 1940–1970: the Big Orange explodes 131 Looking back to the future: Los Angeles in 1965 135 1970 and beyond: the New Urbanization 140 Part II Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis 145 Introduction 147 Border Dialogues: Previewing the Postmetropolitan Discourses 147 Conceptualizing the New Urbanization Processes 148 Grounding the Discourses 154 6 The Postfordist Industrial Metropolis: Restructuring the Geopolitical Economy of Urbanism 156 Representative Texts 156 Pathways into Urban Worlds of Production 157 The geographical anatomy of industrial urbanism 157 Production-work-territory: reworking the divisions of labor 160 Manufacturing matters: against postindustrial sociology 164 Crossing industrial divides 166 Post-ford-ism 169 The empowerment of flexibility 171 Getting lean and mean: the surge in inequality 173 Into the regional world: the rediscovery of synekism 175 Localizing Industrial Urbanism 180 Postfordist industrial cartographies 181 Developmental dynamics of the industrial complex 185 Concluding in the realm of public policy 187 7 Cosmopolis: The Globalization of Cityspace 189 Representative Texts 189 Recomposing the Discourse on Globalization 191 The globality of production and the production of globality 192 Regional worlds of globalization 197 New geographies of power 202 Adding culture to the global geopolitical economy 208 The reconstruction of social meaning in the space of flows 212 Globalized neoliberalism: a brief note 216 Metropolis Unbound: Conceptualizing Globalized Cityspace 218 The world city hypothesis 219 Commanding our attention: the rise of global cities 222 Urban dualism, the Informational City and the urban-regional process 227 The turn to cosmopolis 229 8 Exopolis: The Restructuring of Urban Form 233 Representative Texts 233 Metropolis Transformed 234 Megacities and metropolitan galaxies 235 Outer Cities, postsuburbia, and the end of the Metropolis Era 238 Edge Cities and the optimistic envisioning of postmetropolitan geographies 243 City Lite and postmetropolitan nostalgia 246 Simulating the New Urbanism 248 Exopolis as synthesis 250 Representing the Exopolis in Los Angeles 251 Starting in the New Downtown 251 Inner City blues 254 The middle landscape 258 Off-the-edge cities 259 9 Fractal City: Metropolarities and the Restructured Social Mosaic 264 Representative Texts 264 Manufacturing Inequality in the Postmetropolis 266 Normalizing inequality: the extremes at both ends 267 Variations on the theme of intrinsic causality 268 Describing metropolarities: empirical sociologies and labor market dynamics 272 Moving beyond equality politics 279 Remapping the Fractal City of Los Angeles 282 An overview of the ethnic mosaic 283 Mono-ethnic geographies: segregating cityspace 291 Multicultural geographies: mapping diversity 294 10 The Carceral Archipelago: Governing Space in the Postmetropolis 298 Representative Texts 298 Conceptualizing the Carceral Archipelago 299 Fortress L.A. and the rhetoric of social warfare 300 The destruction of public space and the architectonics of security-obsessed urbanism 303 Policing space: doing time in Los Angeles 307 Entering the Forbidden City: the imprisonment of Downtown 309 Homegrown Revolution: HOAs, CIDs, gated communities, and insular lifestyles 312 Beyond the Blade Runner scenario: the spatial restructuring of urban governmentality 319 11 Simcities: Restructuring the Urban Imaginary 323 Representative Texts 323 Re-imagining Cityspace: Travels in Hyperreality 324 Jean Baudrillard and the precession of simulacra 326 Celeste Olalquiaga and postmodern psychasthenia 330 Cyberspace and the electronic generation of hyperreality 333 M. Christine Boyer and the imaginary real world of Cybercities 337 Simcities, Simcitizens, and hyperreality-generated crisis 339 SimAmerica: a concluding critique 345 Part III Lived Space: Rethinking 1992 in Los Angeles 349 Introduction 351 12 LA 1992: Overture to a Conclusion 355 Revisionings 355 Bodies, Cities, Texts: The Case of Citizen Rodney King (by Barbara Hooper) 359 Inscriptions 359 Somatography: the order in place 361 The Trial: Us v. Them 368 13 LA 1992: The Spaces of Representation 372 Event-Geography-Remembering 372 Visible antipodes: Inner versus Outer City 373 Normalized enclosures: the development of common interests 376 The Invisible Riots Remembered 379 Downtowns: this is not the 1960s 379 Pico-Union and the desaparacidos 386 Sa-i-ku and other commemorations 389 A repetitive ending 392 14 Postscript: Critical Reflections on the Postmetropolis 396 New Beginnings I: Postmetropolis in Crisis 396 The downturn of postfordism 397 Too fulsome globalization? 399 Suddenly everywhere is Pomona 401 Repadded white bunkers 402 Deconstructed modes of regulation 403 Simgovernment in crisis 405 New Beginnings II: Struggles for Spatial Justice and Regional Democracy 407 Bibliography 416 Name Index 431 Subject Index 436 Review "Traditional sociological and urban design critiques of the American city have left vacant a wide middle ground of critical enquiry. Between statistical analysis and physical critique, Edward Soja attempts to bridge the divide by proposing a third way for urban studies. The result is a broad overview, ranging between sociological and cultural points of view, with the provocative possibility of pairing the two in a new urban paradigm." Tom Leslie, World Architecture "Coming to the field as a relative novice, I found this book more straightforward and thought provoking than I expected...it is sure to be of interest and value to students and researchers alike." Regional Studies. "Postmetropolis effectively illuminates the rich complexity and multidisciplinary of urban and regional restructuring in the current era... will serve as a useful resource." Journal of Economic and Social Geography. "Postmetropolis is magisterial in its historic sweep" Thomas L. Bell, University of Tennessee. Long Description Postmetropolis completes Edward Sojas trilogy aimed at expanding the scope and critical insight of our spatial imaginations. Applying the theoretical frameworks developed in Postmodern Geographies (1989) and Thirdspace (1996), it is the first comprehensive text in the growing field of critical urban and regional studies to deal with the dramatically restructured megacities that emerged worldwide over the last half of the twentieth century. At its core is a lively discussion of six discourses that have coalesced around explaining what Soja calls the postmetropolitan transition, a major sea change in how we live in cities and experience urbanism as a way of life. To provide depth to these discussions, the book begins with a rethinking of the debates on the origins of cities, the geohistorical evolution of urban form, and the dynamic relations between society and space in the specific context of urban agglomerations. In addition to being an innovative text in urban and regional studies and an insightful application of new approaches to interpreting the spatiality of human life, Postmetropolis is also a book about contemporary Los Angeles, a vivid and far-reaching interpretation of its turbulent recent history and geography. The book concludes with a look back to the civil unrest of 1992 to portray the postmetropolis in explosive crisis as well as to draw some hope for the future based on new coalition-based struggles for spatial justice and regional democracy. Review Text "Traditional sociological and urban design critiques of the American city have left vacant a wide middle ground of critical enquiry. Between statistical analysis and physical critique, Edward Soja attempts to bridge the divide by proposing a third way for urban studies. The result is a broad overview, ranging between sociological and cultural points of view, with the provocative possibility of pairing the two in a new urban paradigm." Tom Leslie, World Architecture "Coming to the field as a relative novice, I found this book more straightforward and thought provoking than I expected...it is sure to be of interest and value to students and researchers alike." Regional Studies. "Postmetropolis effectively illuminates the rich complexity and multidisciplinary of urban and regional restructuring in the current era... will serve as a useful resource." Journal of Economic and Social Geography. "Postmetropolis is magisterial in its historic sweep" Thomas L. Bell, University of Tennessee. Review Quote "Traditional sociological and urban design critiques of the American city have left vacant a wide middle ground of critical enquiry. Between statistical analysis and physical critique, Edward Soja attempts to bridge the divide by proposing a third way for urban studies. The result is a broad overview, ranging between sociological and cultural points of view, with the provocative possibility of pairing the two in a new urban paradigm." Tom Leslie, World Architecture"Coming to the field as a relative novice, I found this book more straightforward and thought provoking than I expected...it is sure to be of interest and value to students and researchers alike." Regional Studies."Postmetropolis effectively illuminates the rich complexity and multidisciplinary of urban and regional restructuring in the current era... will serve as a useful resource." Journal of Economic and Social Geography."Postmetropolis is magisterial in its historic sweep" Thomas L. Bell, University of Tennessee. Feature This is an advanced textbook in which Soja applies his theoretical and philosophical understandings of the task of explaining the contemporary city. Provides an overview of the history of the city since its inception. Presents Los Angeles as a representative text in the history of urbanism. Defines a new subfield called critical studies of cities and regions. Details ISBN1577180011 Year 2000 ISBN-10 1577180011 ISBN-13 9781577180012 Format Paperback Publication Date 2000-03-17 Subtitle Critical Studies of Cities and Regions DEWEY 307.76 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd Short Title POSTMETROPOLIS Language English Media Book Illustrations Yes Edition 1st DOI 10.1604/9781577180012 UK Release Date 2000-03-17 AU Release Date 2000-03-17 NZ Release Date 2000-03-17 US Release Date 2000-03-17 Author Edward W. Soja Pages 464 Imprint Wiley-Blackwell Place of Publication Hoboken Alternative 9781577180005 Audience Undergraduate Country of Publication United Kingdom We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:102478190;

Price: 116.06 AUD

Location: Melbourne

End Time: 2025-01-22T03:35:02.000Z

Shipping Cost: 14.29 AUD