Imagining Cities: Scripts, Signs and Memories - Softcover

 
9780415144308: Imagining Cities: Scripts, Signs and Memories

Synopsis

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. The book is organised around the following 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 communication, but has a profound effect on the sociological imagination itself.

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Sallie Westwood, John Williams

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ISBN 10:  0415144299 ISBN 13:  9780415144292
Publisher: Routledge, 1996
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