Imagining Cities: Scripts, Signs and Memories

by Westwood,Sallie

• ISBN13: 9780415144292
• ISBN10: 0415144299
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-12-12
• Publisher: Routledge

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 Memoriesis 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. x
Imagining Cities	p. 1
	p. 17
Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis	p. 19
Notes	p. 30
Imagining the Real-Time City	p. 31
Chaotic Places or Complex Places?	p. 50
	p. 71
Out of the Melting Pot into the Fire Next Time	p. 73
White Governmentality	p. 86
Migrant Spaces and Settlers' Time	p. 104
	p. 125
Looking Backward	p. 127
Authenticity and Suburbia	p. 140
Proper Little Mesters	p. 152
	p. 179
This, Here, Now	p. 181
(re)placing the City	p. 202
Anglicising the American Dream	p. 219
	p. 233
Cyberpunk as Social Theory	p. 235
Cities, Subjectivity and Cyberspace	p. 249
Bibliography	p. 261
Index	p. 279
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