The Urban Condition

The Urban Condition

Ghent Urban Studies Team, métropole, urbanisation, aménagement urbain, métropolisation, ville globale, gentrification, vingtième siècle, disneyfication

Quatrième de couverture :   What does the Western city at the end of the twentieth century look like? How did the modern metropolis of congestion and density turn into a posturban or even postsuburban cityscape ? What are edge cities and technoburbs ? How has the social com­position of cities changed in the postwar era ? What do gated communities tell us about social fragmentation ? Is public space in the contemporary city being privatized and militarized ? How can the urban self still be defined ? What role does consumer aestheticism have to play in this ? These and many more questions are addressed by this unique­ly conceived multidisciplinary study, which offers two books in one.   The first part consists of a synthesizing theoretical de­scription of the contemporary urban condition as It Is being represented today within the various subdisciplines of urban studies. The second part complements abstract speculations by concrete examples : 18 International case studies substanti­ate and deepen the findings presented in the theoretical part. Thus, a dialectic is developed whereby detail and generalization stand to each other in a relation of productive tension.   The Urban Condition seeks to interfere In current debates over the future and Interpretation of our urban landscapes by reunit­ing studies of the city as a physical and material phenomenon and as a cultural and mental (arte)fact.  

Ghent Urban Studies Team (GUST)

010 Publishers

1999

447

Ouvrage

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