Imagining Cities : Scripts, Signs and Memories

ISBN-13: 9780415144292 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 300 str.

Sallie Westwood;JOHN WILLIAMS;Sallie Westwood

Opis

The city has always been a locus of research and discussion within the debates of modernity and, more recently, postmodernity. This volume brings together work on the city from within sociology and cultural studies. The book is organized around five major themes: the theoretical imagination; ethnic diversity and the politics of difference; memory and nostalgia; and the complex and complimentary narrative of the city ways. While these representations bring the past and the present together, the final section of the book elaborates the present and future, in relation to the idea of the virtual city. Hence, the world of cyberspace not only recasts our imaginaries of space and commnication, but has a profound effect on the sociological imagination itself.

The city has always been a locus of research and discussion within the debates of modernity, and more recently, postmodernity. This volume brings together some of the most recent and exciting work on the city from within sociology and cultural studies.
This collection is organised around the following major themes:
* urban theory
* ethnic diversity and the politics of difference
* nostalgia and memory
* the image of the city in film, literature and the media.
In each section the contributors explore ideas of past and present within the imagined space of the city. The final section, on the virtual city, pushes this to its logical conclusion in a lively discussion of the city of the future as we begin to imagine it now through the dystopia of cyberpunk and the imagined utopia of the community of the Internet.

Spis treści

Figures, List of contributors, Acknowledgements, IMAGINING CITIES, Part I Theorising cities, Part II Racial/spatial imaginaries, Part III Nostalgia/memory, Part IV Narrating cityscapes, Part V Virtual cities, Bibliography, Index

O autorze

Sallie Westwood, John Williams