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"Traditional sociological and urban design critiques of the American city have left
vacant a wide middle ground of critical enquiry. Between statistical analysis and physical
critique, Edward Soja ...
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This completes Ed Soja's trilogy on urban studies, which began with Postmodern Geographies
and continued with Thirdspace. It is the first comprehensive text in the growing field of
critical urban studies to deal with the dramatically restructured megacities that have
emerged world-wide over the last half of the twentieth-century.
Table of Contents
Prologue.
Part I: Remapping the Geohistory of Cityspace:
Introduction.
1. Putting Cities First.
2. The Second Urban Revolution.
3. The Third Urban Revolution: Modernity and Urban-Industrial Capitalism.
4. Metropolis in Crisis.
5. An Introduction to the Conurbation of Greater Los Angeles.
Part II: Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis:
Introduction.
6. The Postfordist Industrial Metropolis: Restructuring the Geopolitical Economy of
Urbanism.
7. Cosmopolis: The Globalization of Cityspace.
8. Exopolis: The Restructuring of Urban Form.
9. Fractal City: Metropolarities and the Restructured Social Mosaic.
10. The Carceral Archipelago: Governing Space in the Postmetropolis.
11. Simcities: Restructuring the Urban Imaginary.
Part III: Lived Space: Rethinking 1992 in Los Angeles:
12. L. A. 1992: Overture to a Conclusion.
13. L. A. 1992: The Spaces of Representation.
14. Endnotes: Critical Reflections on the Postmetropolis.
References.
Index.
464 pages, Paperback
Edward W Soja is Professor of Planning at the University of California,
Los Angeles. He has written extensively on urban social life, planning and theory. His
previous books include Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social
Theory (Verso, 1989)and Thirdspace (Blackwell, 1996).
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