Emancipating space : geography, architecture, and urban design

By:

King, Ross

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York Guilford Press 1996Description: xi,300pISBN:

1572300469

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

720.47 KIN

Contents:

CONTENTS 1 Introduction: The Design of the City, the Progress 1 of Modernity, and the Crisis of Postmodernity 2 Space and Power: The Enlightenment 1 3 3 Space and the Commodity: The Nineteenth 28 Century and the Rise of Modernity 4 The Space of Revolution: 45 1900 and the Maelstrom 5 The 1 920s as Crucible: 71 Translation, Vkhutemas, and the Bauhaus 6 The Universal Space of the Twentieth Century: 86 Voyages against the Ebb 7 The Space of Signs: 1 1 2 1968, Modernity and Postmodernity 8 "Postmodern" 137 9 Space and Deconstruction: Map as Myth 158 10 Conclusion: New Geography 184 11 The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity 200 versus Postmodernity 12 Conclusion: New Architecture, New Urban Design 228 Notes 251 References 271 Index 289

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CONTENTS
1 Introduction: The Design of the City, the Progress 1
of Modernity, and the Crisis of Postmodernity
2 Space and Power: The Enlightenment 1 3
3 Space and the Commodity: The Nineteenth 28
Century and the Rise of Modernity
4 The Space of Revolution: 45
1900 and the Maelstrom
5 The 1 920s as Crucible: 71
Translation, Vkhutemas, and the Bauhaus
6 The Universal Space of the Twentieth Century: 86
Voyages against the Ebb
7 The Space of Signs: 1 1 2
1968, Modernity and Postmodernity
8 "Postmodern" 137
9 Space and Deconstruction: Map as Myth 158

10 Conclusion: New Geography 184
11 The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity 200
versus Postmodernity
12 Conclusion: New Architecture, New Urban Design 228
Notes 251
References 271
Index 289

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