Description |
xvi, 206 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Architext series |
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Architext series.
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Contents |
Contents note continued: Defining contemporary and historical cities -- 14.Imperial cities -- 15.Global cities |
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Machine generated contents note: 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: a review article -- 4.Re-presenting world cities: cultural theory/social practice -- 5.Postcolonialism, representation and the city -- 6.Cities: contradictory utopias -- Methodologies: case studies in globalisation and imperialism -- 7.Actually existing postcolonialisms: colonial urbanism and architecture after the postcolonial turn -- 8.Internationalism, imperialism, postcolonialism, globalisation: framing 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: case studies of colonial modernities -- 13.Globalisation and homogenisation: the state of play -- |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Globalization.
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Postcolonialism.
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Urban economics.
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Sociology, Urban.
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Urbanization.
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LC no. |
2015041863 |
ISBN |
9781138949560 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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9781138949584 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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(ebook) |
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