Spaces of Global Cultures : Architecture, Urbanism, Identity

ISBN-13: 9780415196208 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 280 str.

Anthony D. King

Opis

This book draws on architectural, urban and built environment writings and evidence in various cities across the world to examine existing theories of globalisation and develop new ones. King examines the processes of globalisation and how these are developed and architecturally inscribed in various world regions. Addressing readers in architecture, geography, sociology as well as urban, cultural and postcolonial studies, Spaces of Global Cultures asks what globalization is doing to architectural and urban form .

Spis treści

Introduction. Part I: Theories 1. Worlds in the City: Wonders of Modern Design to Weapons of Mass Destruction 2. Interrogating Global Culture(s) 3. Cultures and Spaces of Postcolonial Knowledges 4. The Times and Spaces of Modernities 5. Writing Transnational Planning Histories: The Dialectics of Dual Development Part II: Histories 6. Suburb/Ethnoburb/Globurb: The Making of Contemporary Modernities 7. Villafication: The Transformation of Chinese Cities 8. Imagining the World at Home: The Distant Spaces of the Indian City 9. Transnational Delhi Revisited: The Spatial Language of Three Modernities 10. Imperialism, Colonialism and Architects of the Arts and Crafts in Britain Part III: Pasts/Presents/Futures 11. Ways of Seeing: Serendipity, Visuality, Experience

O autorze

Anthony D. King is Bartle Professor of Art History and of Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton. He has been Visiting Professor in Architecture, University of Califonia Berkeley and, for five years, Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.