Postmodern Cities and Spaces - GBV

Postmodern Cities and Spaces Edited by Sophie Watson and Katherine Gibson

BLACKWELL Oxford UK & Cambridge USA

Contents

List of Contributors 1

Postmodern Spaces, Cities and Politics: An Introduction Katherine Gibson and Sophie Watson

Part I Postmodern Space X 2

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Heterotopologies: A Remembrance of Other Spaces in the Citadel-LA Edward W. Soja

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Discourse, Discontinuity, Difference: The Question of 'Other' Spaces Benjamin Genocchio

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Women, Chora, Dwelling

Elizabeth Grosz

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The Invisible Flaneur Elizabeth Wilson

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'Drunk with the Glitter': Consuming Spaces and Sexual Geographies

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Gillian Swanson

80

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(Not) Belonging in Postmodern Space John Lechte

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Imaginary Cities: Images of Postmodernity

Paul Patton

112

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Part II 9

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Postmodern Urbanization: The Six Restructurings of Los Angeles Edward W Soja

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Under the Volcano: Postmodern Space in Hong Kong Alexander Cuthbert

138

Gay Nights and Kingston Town: Representations of Kingston, Jamaica Diane J. Austin-Broos

149

Distant Places, Other Cities? Urban Life in Contemporary Papua New Guinea John Connell and John Lea

165

Part III 13

Postmodern Cities

Postmodern Politics

On the Problems and Prospects of Overcoming Segregation and Fragmentation in Southern Africa's Cities in the Postmodern Era Alan Mabin

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Postmodern Bombay: Fractured Discourses Jim Masselos

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The Dark Side of Modernism: Planning as Control of an Ethnic Minority OrenYiftachel

216

Not Chaos, but Walls: Postmodernism and the Partitioned City Peter Marcuse

243

Postmodern Politics and Planning: A Postscript Sophie Watson and Katherine Gibson

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Index

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