TY - BOOK AU - Dear,M.J. TI - The Postmodern Urban Condition SN - 0631209875 (alk. paper) AV - HT384.U52 L674 1999 U1 - 307.76/09794/94 21 PY - 1999/// CY - Oxford PB - Blackwell Publishers Ltd KW - Urbanization KW - California KW - Los Angeles KW - Local KW - Human geography KW - Nevada KW - Las Vegas KW - Mexico KW - Tijuana (Baja California) KW - Post modernism KW - Social aspects KW - Cities and towns N1 - Index; Bibliography; Contents -- List of Figures vi -- List of Tables viii -- Preface ix -- Acknowledgments x -- Introduction 1 -- 1 Taking Los Angeles Seriously 10 -- 2 Mapping the Postmodern 25 -- 3 Postmodern Bloodlines : From Lefebvre to Jameson 47 -- 4 The Premature Demise of Postmodern Urbanism 70 -- 5 Reading the Modern City : A Colonial History of Los Angeles 1781 – 1991 91 -- 6 Deconstructing Urban Planning 117 -- 7 Postmodern Urbanism 140 -- 8 A Tale of Two Cities 1 . Tijuana 166 -- 9 Film , Architecture and Filmspace 176 -- 10 A Tale of Two Cities 2 . Las Vegas 199 -- 11 From Sidewalk to Cyberspace ( and back to Earth again ) 208 -- 12 The Personal Politics of Postmodernity 231 -- 13 The Power of Place 251 -- 14 The Geopolitics of Postmodernity 261 -- 15 Epistemological Politics 285 -- Epilogue : Beyond Postmodernism 317 -- A Beginner ' s Guide to Postmodernism 319 -- Index 321 -- N2 - "This book will change the way we understand cities. It provides readers with not only an introduction to cities and urbanism in the postmodern world but also overturns many common assumptions about urban structure. Dear's analysis combines concepts of postmodernism, space and the urban to trace the genesis of a postmodern urban condition. He provides an understanding of the intellectual, moral, and political consequences of postmodernism and an evaluation of the role of space, and place in contemporary social theory and philosophy." -- ER -