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The Postmodern Urban Condition

M. J. Dear; Michael J. Dear

Synopsis:
This book changes the way we understand cities. It provides readers with not only an introduction to cities and urbanism in the postmodern world but also overturns many common assumptions about urban structure. Dear's analysis combines concepts of postmodernism, space and the urban to trace the genesis of a postmodern urban condition. He provides an understanding of the intellectual, moral and political consequences of postmodernism and an evaluation of the role of space and place in contemporary social theory and philosophy. Drawing as much from fiction and film, politics and history, architecture and cultural studies, as from urbanism and geography, The Postmodern Urban, Condition presents a vision of a twenty-first century dominated by global megacities and uncovers new ways of understanding how cities are made.

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Other editions: Hardcover - 2004, Hardcover - 2000, Softcover - 1987, Hardcover - 1987, Softcover - 1984, 1984, Hardcover - 1982