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Author : Michael J. Dear
Release : 2000
Genre : Human geography
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Book Synopsis The Postmodern Urban Condition by : Michael J. Dear
Download or read book The Postmodern Urban Condition written by Michael J. Dear. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael J. Dear
Release : 2001-02-08
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Postmodern Urban Condition by : Michael J. Dear
Download or read book The Postmodern Urban Condition written by Michael J. Dear. This book was released on 2001-02-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will change the way we understand cities. It provides readers with not only an introduction to cities and urbanism in the postmodern world but also overturns many common assumptions about urban structure.
Author : Ghent Urban Studies Team
Release : 1999
Genre : Areas metropolitanas
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Book Rating : 559/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Urban Condition by : Ghent Urban Studies Team
Download or read book The Urban Condition written by Ghent Urban Studies Team. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does the Western city at the end of the twentieth century look like? How did the modern metropolis of congestion and density turn into a posturban or even postsuburban cityscape? What are edge cities and technoburbs? How has the social composition of cities changed in the postwar era? What do gated communities tell us about social fragmentation? Is public space in the contemporary city being privatized and militarized? How can the urban self still be defined? What role does consumer aestheticism have to play in this? These and many more questions are addressed by this uniquely conceived multidisciplinary study. The Urban Condition seeks to interfere in current debates over the future and interpretation of our urban landscapes by reuniting studies of the city as a physical and material phenomenon and as a cultural and mental (arte)fact. The Ghent Urban Studies Team responsible for the writing and editing of this volume is directed by Kristiaan Versluys and Dirk De Meyer at the University of Ghent, Belgium. It is an interdisciplinary research team of young academics that further consists of Kristiaan Borret, Bart Eeckhout, Steven Jacobs, and Bart Keunen. The collective expertise of GUST ranges from architectural theory, urban planning, and art history to philosophy, literary criticism and cultural theory.
Author : Nan Ellin
Release : 1999
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 352/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Postmodern Urbanism by : Nan Ellin
Download or read book Postmodern Urbanism written by Nan Ellin. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to the scope of contemporary urban design theory in Europe and the USA.
Author : Leandro Medrano
Release : 2021-04-07
Genre : Architecture
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Book Synopsis The New Urban Condition by : Leandro Medrano
Download or read book The New Urban Condition written by Leandro Medrano. This book was released on 2021-04-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores new architectural and design perspectives on the contemporary urban condition. While architects and urban designers have long maintained that their actions, drawings, and buildings are “post-critical,” this book seeks to expand the critical dimension of architecture and urbanism. In a series of historical and theoretical studies, this book examines how the materialities, forms, and practices of architecture and urban design can act as a critique towards the new urban condition. It proposes not only new concepts and theories but also instruments of analysis and reflection to better understand the current counter-hegemonic tendencies in both disciplinary strategies and appropriation tactics. The diversely international selection of chapters, from Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United States, and the Netherlands, combine different theoretical and empirical perspectives into a new analysis of the city and architecture. Demonstrating the need for new critical urban and architectural thinking that engages with the challenges and processes of the contemporary urban condition, this volume will be a thought-provoking read for academics and students in architecture, urban design, geography, political science, and more.
