Representing the CityAnthony D. King NYU Press, 1996 - 282 páginas Classic representations of the city have focused on simplistic urban dichotomies such as renewal or decline, poverty or prosperity, and vice or vigor. We are left with the question of what actually constitutes a city and what makes it and its people succeed or fail. Recent writing on the city, however, has begun to question the images, metaphors, and discourses through which the contemporary city is represented. Discussing recent visual, architectural and spatial transformations in New York and other major world cities in relation to the themes of ethnicity, capital, and culture, Re-Presenting the City moves between interpretive representations of the newly emerging metropolis and the theoretical and methodological questions raised by the task of such representations. Contributors with backgrounds in urban planning, sociology, cultural studies, architecture, art history, geography, and philosophy reflect on the construction of both the real and the unreal city, the images, metaphors and discourses through which the contemporary city is represented, and the texts which both mediate our experience of, as well as contribute to producing, the city of the future. |
Contenido
Representations | 21 |
Space and Symbols in an Age of Decline | 43 |
Puerto Rican Vernacular Architecture | 60 |
Degentrification and | 93 |
Writing the City | 109 |
The Relevance of a Knowledge of | 137 |
Three Stages towards Globalization | 158 |
Reading and Writing the City | 177 |
Race Gender and Representation in | 183 |
Making Places in Architectural History | 203 |
A Guide to Urban Representation and What to Do About | 227 |
Or Hayden White Among the Urbanists | 253 |
Notes on Contributors | 269 |
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Re-Presenting the City: Ethnicity, Capital and Culture in the Twenty-First ... Anthony D. King Sin vista previa disponible - 1996 |
Re-presenting the City: Ethnicity, Capital and Culture in the Twenty-first ... Anthony D. King Sin vista previa disponible - 1996 |
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