Postmetropolis

Critical Studies of Cities and Regions

Edward W. Soja (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

464 Seiten

2000
Blackwell Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-57718-000-5 (ISBN)

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Examines how critical urban studies deals with the dramatically restructured megacities - postmetropolises - that have emerged over the last half of the 20th-century all over the world. The book may be seen, in part, as a sequel and an extension to the arguments put foward in "Thirdspace".

Postmetropolis completes Edward Soja's 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.

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).

Prologue. Part I: Remapping the Geohistory of Cityspace: Introduction. 1. Putting Cities First. 2. The Second Urban Revolution. 3. The Third Urban Revolution: Modernity and Urban-Industrial Capitalism. 4. Metropolis in Crisis. 5. An Introduction to the Conurbation of Greater Los Angeles. Part II: Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis: Introduction. 6. The Postfordist Industrial Metropolis: Restructuring the Geopolitical Economy of Urbanism. 7. Cosmopolis: The Globalization of Cityspace. 8. Exopolis: The Restructuring of Urban Form. 9. Fractal City: Metropolarities and the Restructured Social Mosaic. 10. The Carceral Archipelago: Governing Space in the Postmetropolis. 11. Simcities: Restructuring the Urban Imaginary. Part III: Lived Space: Rethinking 1992 in Los Angeles: 12. L. A. 1992: Overture to a Conclusion. 13. L. A. 1992: The Spaces of Representation. 14. Endnotes: Critical Reflections on the Postmetropolis. References. Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.3.2000
Zusatzinfo	12 photographs, references, index
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	172 x 244 mm
Gewicht	936 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Themenwelt	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-57718-000-3 / 1577180003
ISBN-13	978-1-57718-000-5 / 9781577180005
Zustand	Neuware