The first book to combine global and postcolonial theoretical approaches to the built environment, and to illustrate these with concrete examples, "Spaces of Global Cultures "argues for a more historical, differentiated and interdisciplinary understanding of globalization: one that places material space and the built environment at the center and calls for innovative concepts to address new contemporary conditions.
The first book to combine global and postcolonial theoretical approaches to the built environment, and to illustrate these with concrete examples, "Sp...
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 .
This book draws on architectural, urban and built environment writings and evidence in various cities across the world to examine existing theories of...
Focuses on the social and cultural processes governing colonial urban development. This book demonstrates how the physical and spatial arrangements characterizing urban development are unique products of a particular society, to be understood only in terms of its values, behaviour and institutions and distribution of social and political power.
Focuses on the social and cultural processes governing colonial urban development. This book demonstrates how the physical and spatial arrangements ch...
Representations of the city have typically focused on urban dichotomies such as renewal or decline, poverty or prosperity, and politics or culture. These simplistic portrayals leave many fundamental questions unanswered. What constitutes a city? What images and discourses are used to construct it? What makes city dwellers succeed or fail?
Discussing recent visual, architectural and spatial transformations in New York and other major world cities in relation to the themes of ethnicity, capital, and culture, Re- Presenting the City moves between interpretative representations of the...
Representations of the city have typically focused on urban dichotomies such as renewal or decline, poverty or prosperity, and politics or culture....
Representations of the city have typically focused on urban dichotomies such as renewal or decline, poverty or prosperity, and politics or culture. These simplistic portrayals leave many fundamental questions unanswered. What constitutes a city? What images and discourses are used to construct it? What makes city dwellers succeed or fail?
Discussing recent visual, architectural and spatial transformations in New York and other major world cities in relation to the themes of ethnicity, capital, and culture, Re- Presenting the City moves between interpretative representations of the...
Representations of the city have typically focused on urban dichotomies such as renewal or decline, poverty or prosperity, and politics or culture....
A foundational work in the study of the globalization of culture.
First published in 1991, Culture, Globalization and the World-System is one of the inaugural books discussing the increasing tendency of cultural practices to cross national boundaries. Now widely available in the United States for the first time and updated with a new preface, these influential essays by a distinguished group of cultural critics lay the groundwork for a vital new field of inquiry.
Culture, Globalization and the World-System views culture through different prisms and categories -- including race, gender,...
A foundational work in the study of the globalization of culture.
First published in 1991, Culture, Globalization and the World-System is one of the...
Recent years have witnessed a surge in public awareness concerning the impact of world economic forces on cities. In this challenging book, the author argues that though the consciousness is new the phenomena themselves are not. For the past two centuries at least, world economic, political and cultural forces have been major factors shaping cities, patterns of urbanization and the physical and spatial forms of the built environment.
Anthony King believes that the historical context of contemporary global restructuring must be recognized if present-day urban and regional change is to be...
Recent years have witnessed a surge in public awareness concerning the impact of world economic forces on cities. In this challenging book, the aut...
