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Author : Ryan Bishop
Release : 2003
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 491/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Postcolonial Urbanism by : Ryan Bishop
Download or read book Postcolonial Urbanism written by Ryan Bishop. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Ryan Bishop
Release : 2013-01-11
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 502/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Postcolonial Urbanism by : Ryan Bishop
Download or read book Postcolonial Urbanism written by Ryan Bishop. This book was released on 2013-01-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A common assumption about cities throughout the world is tht they are essentially an elaboration of the Euro-American model. Postcolonial Urbanism demonstrates the narrowness of this vision. Cities in the postcolonial world, the book shows, are producing novel forms of urbanism not reducible to Western urbanism. Despite being heavily colonized in the past, Southeast Asia has been largely ignored in discussions about postcolonial theory and in general considerations of global urbanism. An international cast of contributors focuses on the heavily urbanized world region of Southeast Asia to investigate the novel forms of urbanism germinating in postcolonial settings such as Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Hanoi, and the Philippines. Offering a mix of theoretical perspectives and empirical accounts, Postcolonial Urbanism presents a panoramic view of the cultures, societies, and politics of the postcolonial city.
Author : Myers, Garth
Release : 2020-06-03
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 453/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Rethinking Urbanism by : Myers, Garth
Download or read book Rethinking Urbanism written by Myers, Garth. This book was released on 2020-06-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides new insights into popular understandings of urbanism by using a wide range of case studies from lesser studied cities across the Global South and Global North to present evidence for the need to reconstruct our understanding of who and what makes urban environments. Myers explores the global hierarchy of cities, the criteria for positioning within these hierarchies and the successes of various policymaking approaches designed specifically to boost a city’s ranking. Engaging heavily with postcolonial studies and Global South thinking, he shows how cities construct one another’s spaces and calls for a new understanding of planetary urbanism that moves beyond Western-centric perspectives.
Author : Rohan Kalyan
Release : 2017-04-07
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 647/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Neo Delhi and the Politics of Postcolonial Urbanism by : Rohan Kalyan
Download or read book Neo Delhi and the Politics of Postcolonial Urbanism written by Rohan Kalyan. This book was released on 2017-04-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kalyan presents a trans-disciplinary exploration of the manifold possibilities and challenges that confront a ‘globalizing’ megacity like New Delhi.
Author : Addamms Mututa
Release : 2021-10-09
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis Crisis Urbanism and Postcolonial African Cities in Postmillennial Cinema by : Addamms Mututa
Download or read book Crisis Urbanism and Postcolonial African Cities in Postmillennial Cinema written by Addamms Mututa. This book was released on 2021-10-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a framework to rethink postcoloniality and urbanism from African perspectives. Bringing together multidisciplinary perspectives on African crises through postmillennial films, the book addresses the need to situate global south cultural studies within the region. The book employs film criticism and semiotics as devices to decode contemporary cultures of African cities, with a specific focus on crisis. Drawing on a variety of contemporary theories on cities of the global south, especially Africa, the book sifts through nuances of crisis urbanism within postmillennial African films. In doing so the book offers unique perspectives that move beyond the confines of sociological or anthropological studies of cities. It argues that crisis has become a mainstay reality of African cities and thus occupies a central place in the way these cities may be theorized or imagined. The book considers crises of six African cities: nonentity in post-apartheid Johannesburg, laissez faire economies of Kinshasa, urban commons in Nairobi, hustlers in postwar Monrovia, latent revolt in Cairo, and cantonments in postwar Luanda, which offer useful insights on African cities today. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of urban studies, urban geography, urban sociology, cultural studies, and media studies.
