Imagining Cities considers the interplay of past and present, imagined and substantive, and links present and future in examining the idea of the virtual city. The world of cyberspace recasts views of space and communication, and has a profound impact on the sociological imagination itself.
Imagining Cities considers the interplay of past and present, imagined and substantive, and links present and future in examining the idea of the virtual city. The world of cyberspace recasts views of space and communication, and has a profound impact on the sociological imagination itself.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Imagining Cities Part I: Theorising Cities 1. Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis 2. Imagining the Real-Time City: Telecommunications, Urban Paradigms and the Future of Cities 3. Chaotic Places or Complex Places? Cities in a Post-Industrial Era Part II: Racial/Spatial Imaginaries 4. Out of the Melting Pot Into the Fire Next Time: Imagining the East End as City, Body, Text 5. White Governmentality: Urbanism, Nationalism, Racism 6. Migrant Spaces and Settlers' Time: Forming and De-Forming an Inner City Part III: Nostalgia/Memory 7. Looking Backward, Nostalgia and the City 8. Authenticity and Suburbia 9. 'Proper Little Mesters': Nostalgia and Protest Masculinity and De-Industrialised Sheffield Part IV: Narrating Cityscapes 10. This, Here, Now: Imagining the Modern City 11. (Re)Placing the City: Cultural Relocation and the City as Centre 12. Anglicising the American Dream: Tragedy, Farce and the 'Postmodern' City Part V: Virtual Cities 13. Cyberpunk as Social Theory: William Gibson and the Sociological Imagination 14. Cities, Subjectivity and Cyberspace Bibliography Index
Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Imagining Cities Part I: Theorising Cities 1. Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis 2. Imagining the Real-Time City: Telecommunications, Urban Paradigms and the Future of Cities 3. Chaotic Places or Complex Places? Cities in a Post-Industrial Era Part II: Racial/Spatial Imaginaries 4. Out of the Melting Pot Into the Fire Next Time: Imagining the East End as City, Body, Text 5. White Governmentality: Urbanism, Nationalism, Racism 6. Migrant Spaces and Settlers' Time: Forming and De-Forming an Inner City Part III: Nostalgia/Memory 7. Looking Backward, Nostalgia and the City 8. Authenticity and Suburbia 9. 'Proper Little Mesters': Nostalgia and Protest Masculinity and De-Industrialised Sheffield Part IV: Narrating Cityscapes 10. This, Here, Now: Imagining the Modern City 11. (Re)Placing the City: Cultural Relocation and the City as Centre 12. Anglicising the American Dream: Tragedy, Farce and the 'Postmodern' City Part V: Virtual Cities 13. Cyberpunk as Social Theory: William Gibson and the Sociological Imagination 14. Cities, Subjectivity and Cyberspace Bibliography Index
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