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Writing the Global City: Globalisation, Postcolonialism and the Urban book cover

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Writing the Global City Globalisation, Postcolonialism and the Urban

By Anthony King Copyright 2016
222 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Over the last three decades, our understanding of the city worldwide has been revolutionized by three innovative theoretical concepts – globalisation, postcolonialism and a radically contested notion of modernity. The idea and even the reality of the city has been extended out of the state and nation and re-positioned in the larger global world. In this book Anthony King brings together key... Read more
Dedication.  List of Illustrations.  Preface and Introduction.  Acknowledgements.  Part 1: Re-theorising the City: Globalisation, Colonialism, Postcolonialism  1. Architecture, Capital and the Globalisation of Culture  2. Colonialism, Urbanism and the Capitalist World Economy  3. Writing Colonial Space  4. Representing World Cities: Cultural Theory and Social Practice  5. Postcolonialism, Representation and the City  6. Cities: Contradictory Utopias  Part 2: Methodologies: Case Studies in Globalisation and Imperialism  7. Actually-Existing Postcolonialisms: Colonial Urbanism after the Postcolonial Turn  8. Imperialism, Internationalism, Postcolonialism, Globalisation: Frameworks for Vernacular Architecture  9. Postcolonial Cities, Postcolonial Critiques  10. Notes Towards a Global Historical Sociology of Building Types  11. Imperialism and World Cities  12. Imperialism and the Grand Hotel  13. Globalisation and Homogenisation: the State of Play  Part 3: Defining Contemporary and Historical Cities  14. Imperial Cities  15. Global Cities  Further Reading. Name Index.  Subject Index

Biography

Anthony D. King is Emeritus Professor of Art History and of Sociology, Binghamton University, State University of New York, USA, and now lives in the UK. He has been Visiting Professor of Architecture at University of California, Berkeley, USA, and was, for five years, Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India.

"Long before the term 'Global City' was invented, Tony King was writing about it. In this collection of essays, written over a lifetime of scholarship and revised for this volume, he presents a comprehensive view of the processes that led to the emergence of this important concept." - Nezar AlSayyad, University of California, Berkeley, USA

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