Imagining Cities

Scripts, Signs and Memories
Erscheinungsjahr 1996
ISBN: 978-0-415-14429-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

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. The book is organised around the following major themes: the theoretical imagination; ethnic diversity and the politics of difference; memory and nostalgia; and the complex and complimentary narrative of the city ways.While these representations bring the past and the present together, the final section of the book elaborates the present and future in relation to the idea of the virtual city. Hence, the world of cyberspace not only recasts our imaginaries of space and communication, but has a profound effect on the sociological imagination itself.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Westwood, Sallie

Williams, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures, List of contributors, Acknowledgements, IMAGINING CITIES, Part I Theorising cities, Part II Racial/spatial imaginaries, Part III Nostalgia/memory, Part IV Narrating cityscapes, Part V Virtual cities, Bibliography, Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sallie Westwood, John Williams