1st Edition
Cities, Citizens, and Technologies Urban Life and Postmodernity
By Paula Geyh
Copyright 2009
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book is about the contemporary city and those who live in it. It is thus also about the urban world of the era (extending roughly from the 1960s to the present) that we see as postmodern, and specifically about how the postmodern city is changing under the impact of globalization and new information and communication technologies. In particular, Geyh explores how the urban spaces of... Read more
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
Biography
Paula Geyh is an associate professor of English at Yeshiva University and a co-editor of Postmodern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology.
"This book is beautifully written ... It is refreshing to read such a passionately argued text, obviously the work of someone with a strong sense of social conscience."
--Media, Culture & Society (David W. Hill, University of York, UK)
