T.A. Markus & A.D. King
Routledge | 0415196205 | 2004 | PDF | 280 pages | 22 Mb
DESCRIPTION
This book brings together a series of new and historical case studies to show how different phases of globalization are transforming the built environment. Taking a broad interdisciplinary approach, the author draws on sociological, geographical, cultural and postcolonial studies to provide a critical account of the development of three key concepts: global culture, post colonialism, and modernity. Subsequent case studies examine how global economic, political and cultural forces shape the forms of architectural and urban modernity in globalized suburbs and spaces in major cities worldwide.
The first book to combine global and postcolonial theoretical approaches to the built environment and to illustrate these with examples, Spaces of Global Cultures argues for a more historical and interdisciplinary understanding of globalization: one that places material space and the built environment at the centre and calls for new theories to address new conditions.
LIST OF CONTENT
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
EDITORIAL REVIEW
'This outstanding volume by Anthony King is empirically rich and sends deep theoretical tremors as well; an invaluable read.' - Jan Nederveen Pieterse, author of Globaliztion or Empire, Routledge 2004
'The book is very interdisciplinary—and inherently geographical ... It is sensitive to political and cultural context and highlights the various hegemonies at play in architecture.' - Environment and Planning A
Routledge | 0415196205 | 2004 | PDF | 280 pages | 22 Mb
DESCRIPTION
This book brings together a series of new and historical case studies to show how different phases of globalization are transforming the built environment. Taking a broad interdisciplinary approach, the author draws on sociological, geographical, cultural and postcolonial studies to provide a critical account of the development of three key concepts: global culture, post colonialism, and modernity. Subsequent case studies examine how global economic, political and cultural forces shape the forms of architectural and urban modernity in globalized suburbs and spaces in major cities worldwide.
The first book to combine global and postcolonial theoretical approaches to the built environment and to illustrate these with examples, Spaces of Global Cultures argues for a more historical and interdisciplinary understanding of globalization: one that places material space and the built environment at the centre and calls for new theories to address new conditions.
LIST OF CONTENT
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
EDITORIAL REVIEW
'This outstanding volume by Anthony King is empirically rich and sends deep theoretical tremors as well; an invaluable read.' - Jan Nederveen Pieterse, author of Globaliztion or Empire, Routledge 2004
'The book is very interdisciplinary—and inherently geographical ... It is sensitive to political and cultural context and highlights the various hegemonies at play in architecture.' - Environment and Planning A
