Title & Author:

The urban condition : space, community, and self in the contemporary metropolis / written and edited by the Ghent Urban Studies Team (GUST).

Publication:

Rotterdam : 010 Publishers, 1999.

Description:

447 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part one: Theory -- Chapter one: Space -- 1. From density to dispersal -- 2. The complexities of posturban space -- 3. The virtualization of the metropolis -- Chapter two: Community -- 1. Individualization and community building -- 2. The contemporary social landscape -- 3. Recent transformations or urban public space -- 3 Chapter three: Self -- 1. Classical perspective on the urban self -- 2. Contemporary variations on a theme: the bodily experience of urban space -- 3. Constructions of the symbolic metropolis -- Part two: Case studies -- From Hampstead to Houston / Alan Hollinghurst -- Agonizing Arcadia: notes on postwar architecture in Los Angeles / Dirk de Meyer -- CityWalk: Los(t) Angeles in the shape of mall / Kevin R. McNamara -- Race, cars, film, and Los Angeles as (post)modern city / Jude Davies -- The "middle landscape" and the myth of mobility: coming home in commuter country / Ren ̌Boomkens -- Enclaves: cruising through the city of minorities / Cino Zucchi -- The "void" as a productive concept for urban public space / Kristiaan Borret -- The flight forward of Rem Koolhaas / Lieven de Cauter -- Representations of the underclass: race, poverty, and the postindustrial ghetto / Liam Kennedy -- Hospitality as a condition of urbanity: ethnography of a "stopping place" / Anne Gotman
Downtown Brussels: a portrait / Rudi Laermans -- The invisible work of art / Sven Lẗticken -- Between E.U.R. and L.A.: townscapes in the work of Michelangelo Antonioni / Steven Jacobs -- "Night on Earth": urban practices and the blindness of metatheory / Trui Vetters -- The decline of the city as modernist symbol: city images in postmodern urban fiction and in collective memory / Bart Keunen -- The street as theater: self-presentation and specularity in three literary texts on New York / Kristiaan Versluys -- Down these (gender-divided and ethnically fractured) mean streets: the urban thriller in the age of multiculturalism and minority writing / Christophe den Tandt -- The transformation of cyberspace in William Gibson's "Neuromancer": from highrise grid to hive / Maarten Delbeke.

ISBN:

9064503559
9789064503559

Subject:

Sociology, Urban.
Public spaces.
Cities and towns Case studies.
Metropolitan areas Case studies.
Sociologie urbaine.
Espaces publics.
Villes Études de cas.
urban sociology.
Cities and towns
Metropolitan areas
Metropole
Stadtsoziologie
Urbanisatie.
Stadssociologie.
Metropolen.
Postmodernisme.
SOCIOLOGIA URBANA.
ÁREAS METROPOLITANAS.
ESPAÇO URBANO.

Form/genre:

Case studies
Études de cas.

Added entries:

Ghent Urban Studies Team.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 301790
Call No.: HT119 .U7 1999
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available