Cities, Citizens, and Technologies - Urban Life and Postmodernity

Informationen zum Autor Paula Geyh is an associate professor of English at Yeshiva University and a co-editor of Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology . Klappentext This book is an investigation of how contemporary - postmodern - cities and their inhabitants have been transformed by the forces of globalization and new information technologies. Drawing upon a wide range of discourses, from architectural theory and urban studies to psychoanalysis and Marxism, it explores this transformation through readings of contemporary literature, film, art, and real-world urban and cyber spaces. Zusammenfassung Shows how contemporary postmodern cities and their inhabitants have been transformed by the forces of globalization and fresh information technologies. This book explores how the urban spaces of post modernity (parks, plazas, streets, sidewalks) and postmodern urban subjectivities and communities respond to and create each other. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Legible Cities: Urban Spaces and Subjects 2. Urban Grids and Urban Imaginary: City to Cyberspace, Cyberspace to City 3. The City of Control and the Polis 4. City Moves: Urban Spaces and Motion 5. Global Cities and Citizens

Product details

• Authors: Paula Geyh, Paula (Yeshiva University Geyh, Geyh Paula
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.04.2009
• EAN: 9780415991728
• ISBN: 978-0-415-99172-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Urban communities, Urban communities / city life