Spaces of Global Cultures: Architecture, Urbanism, Identity / Edition 1

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Overview

This book brings together a series of new and historical case studies to show how different phases of globalization are transforming the built environment. Taking a broad interdisciplinary approach, the author draws on sociological, geographical, cultural and postcolonial studies to provide a critical account of the development of three key concepts: global culture, post colonialism, and modernity. Subsequent case studies examine how global economic, political and cultural forces shape the forms of architectural and urban modernity in globalized suburbs and spaces in major cities worldwide.

The first book to combine global and postcolonial theoretical approaches to the built environment and to illustrate these with examples, Spaces of Global Cultures argues for a more historical and interdisciplinary understanding of globalization: one that places material space and the built environment at the centre and calls for new theories to address new conditions.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780415196208
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publication date: 11/1/2004
  • Series: Architext Series
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 280
  • Product dimensions: 6.80 (w) x 9.60 (h) x 0.80 (d)

Meet the Author

Anthony D. King is Bartle Professor of Art History and of Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton. He has been Visiting Professor in Architecture, University of Califonia Berkeley and, for five years, Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

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Table of Contents

1 Worlds in the city : from wonders of modern design to weapons of mass destruction 3
2 Interrogating global culture(s) 23
3 Cultures and spaces of postcolonial knowledges 45
4 The times and spaces of modernity 65
5 Writing transnational planning histories : the dialectics of dual development 82
6 Suburb/ethnoburb/globurb : the making of contemporary modernities 97
7 Villafication : the transformation of Chinese cities 111
8 Imagining the world at home : the distant spaces of the Indian city 127
9 Transnational Delhi revisited : the spatial language of three modernities 141
10 Imperialism, colonialism and architects of the arts and crafts in Britain 161
11 Ways of seeing : serendipity, visuality, experience 189
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