Title & Author:

Imagining cities : scripts, signs, memory / edited by Sallie Westwood and John Williams.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

Description:

ix, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Restrictions:

Online version licensed for access by U. of T. users.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-278) and index.
Imagining cities / Sallie Westwood and John Williams --- Part I. Theorising cities. 1. Six discourses on the postmetropolis / Edward W. Soja -- 2. Imagining the real-time city: telecommunications, urban paradigms and the future of cities / Stephen Graham -- 3. Chaotic places or complex places? Cities in a post-industrial era / David Byrne --- Part II. Racial/spatial imaginaries. 4. Out of the melting pot into the fire next time: imagining the east end as city, body, text / Phil Cohen -- 5. White governmentality: urbanism, nationalism, racism / Barnor Hesse -- 6. Migrant spaces and settlers' time: forming and de-forming an inner city / Max Farrar --- Part III. Nostalgia/memory. 7. Looking backward, nostalgia and the city / Elizabeth Wilson -- 8. Authenticity and suburbia / David Chaney -- 9. 'Proper Little Mesters': nostalgia and protest masculinity in de-industrialised Sheffield / Ian Taylor and Ruth Jamieson --- Part IV. Narrating cityscapes. 10. This, here, now: imagining the modern city / James Donald -- 11. (Re) placing the city: cultural relocation and the city as centre / Tim Hall -- 12. Anglicising the American dream: tragedy, farce and the 'postmodern' city / Julie Charlesworth and Allan Cochrane --- Part V. Virtual cities. 13. Cyberpunk as social theory: William Gibson and the sociological imagination / Roger Burrows -- 14. Cities, subjectivity and cyberspace / Graham B. Mcbeath and Stephen A. Webb.

Summary:

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. Scripts, Sign's and Memories is organized around four major themes: urban theory; ethnic diversity and the politics of difference; memory and nostalgia; and the image of the city in film, literature and the media. In each section the contributors explore ideas of past and present within the imagined space of the city. The final section, on the virtual city, pushes this to its logical conclusion in a lively discussion of the city of the future as we begin to imagine it now through the dystopia of cyberpunk and the imagined utopia of the community of the internet.

Resources:
1997.
Publisher description
Kostenfrei

ISBN:

0415144299 (hbk.)
9780415144292 (hbk.)
0415144302 (pbk.)
9780415144308 (pbk.)
9780203397350
0203397355

Subject:

Cities and towns.
Sociology, Urban.
Cities
Villes.
Sociologie urbaine.
cities.
urban sociology.
Anthropogeografie
Stadt
Stadtsoziologie
Aufsatzsammlung
Steden.
Sociale verandering.
Technische ontwikkeling.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Westwood, Sallie, editor.
Williams, John (John M.), editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 220229
Call No.: HT151 .I5 1997
Status: Available