Post ex sub dis : urban fragmentations and constructions / edited by the Ghent Urban Studies Team (GUST) ; [design by Piet Gerards with Ton van de Ven].

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Post ex sub dis : urban fragmentations and constructions / edited by the Ghent Urban Studies Team (GUST) ; [design by Piet Gerards with Ton van de Ven].

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311 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Based on papers presented at an international conference organized by GUST (Ghent Urban Studies Team) in Brussels, October 19-21, 2000.
Based on papers presented at an international conference organized by the Ghent Urban Studies Team and held in Brussels, October 19-21, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Shreds of boring postcards: toward a posturban aesthetics of the generic and the everyday / Steven Jacobs -- I. POSTSUBURBOPOLIS AND BEYOND: RECONCEIVING AND DESIGNING CONTEMPORARY CITYSCAPES -- Buying out: how the growth of mass consumption markets in the postwar era privatized metropolitan America / Lizabeth Cohen -- Sprawl is no longer what it used to be / Edward W. Soja -- Making ourselves at home in sprawl / Aaron Betsky -- On some paradoxes in the relationship between photography and the contemporary city / Stefano Boeri -- Berlin: the dialectics of decontering / Regine Leibinger -- Posturban projects: Garden Makeblijde, Houten, and Jubilee Gardens, London / Adriaan Geuze/West (Intro. by Kristiaan Borret) -- II. URBANITES AND CITIZENS: THE NEW PUBLIC REALM -- Barricaded city and deglobalization / Peter Marcuse -- Fragmentation of cities: local responses in New York and Paris / Sophie Body-Gendrot -- Postsexual city? Times square in the age of virtual reproduction / Bart Eeckhout -- Sharing strangeness: Krzysztof Wodiczko's Ægis and the question of hospitality / Rosalyn Deutsche -- III. COSMOPOLITANISM AND MULTICULTURALISM: THE DYNAMICS OF GLOBALIZATION -- Status of difference: multiculturalism and the postcolonial city / Paul Gilroy -- How diverse is it? The case of Oakland, California / Scott Malcomson -- Post-haste: elevators, trams, and globalization / Bruce Robbins -- IV. URBAN MEMORIES AND NOSTALIGIAS: BACK TO THE FUTURE -- What to do when cities crumble: a guide to the next recession / Luc Sante -- Nostalgia and connection in the postmodern metropolis / William Sharpe -- Bloodstained architecture / Mark Wigley.
Also issued online.

ISBN:

9064504784 (pbk.)
9789064504785 (pbk.)
(pbk.)
9065404784

Subject:

City planning.
Space (Architecture)
Espace (Architecture)
Stedenbouw.
Fragmentatie.
Cities and towns Forecasting.
Cities and towns Growth.
Cities and towns in art.

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Ghent Urban Studies Team.

Urban fragmentations and constructions

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Location: Library main 229349
Call No.: NA9050 .P6 2002
Status: Available

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