Imagining Cities: Scripts, Signs, Memory

ISBN-13: 9780815399834 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 296 str.

Sallie Westwood; John M. Williams

Opis

Imagining Cities considers the interplay of past and present, imagined and substantive, and links present and future in examining the idea of the virtual city. The world of cyberspace recasts views of space and communication, and has a profound impact on the sociological imagination itself.

Spis treści

Figures  List of Contributors  Acknowledgements  Imagining Cities  Part I: Theorising Cities  1. Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis  2. Imagining the Real-Time City: Telecommunications, Urban Paradigms and the Future of Cities  3. Chaotic Places or Complex Places? Cities in a Post-Industrial Era  Part II: Racial/Spatial Imaginaries  4. Out of the Melting Pot Into the Fire Next Time: Imagining the East End as City, Body, Text  5. White Governmentality: Urbanism, Nationalism, Racism  6. Migrant Spaces and Settlers’ Time: Forming and De-Forming an Inner City  Part III: Nostalgia/Memory  7. Looking Backward, Nostalgia and the City  8. Authenticity and Suburbia  9. ‘Proper Little Mesters’: Nostalgia and Protest Masculinity and De-Industrialised Sheffield  Part IV: Narrating Cityscapes  10. This, Here, Now: Imagining the Modern City  11. (Re)Placing the City: Cultural Relocation and the City as Centre  12. Anglicising the American Dream: Tragedy, Farce and the ‘Postmodern’ City  Part V: Virtual Cities  13. Cyberpunk as Social Theory: William Gibson and the Sociological Imagination  14. Cities, Subjectivity and Cyberspace  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Sallie Westwood, John M Williams