The end of tradition?
By: edited by Nezar AlSayyad.
Contributors: AlSayyad, Nezar.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Tradition (Philosophy); Globalization -- Social aspects.; Globalization -- Political aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The end of tradition, or the tradition of endings / Nezar AlSayyad; value: Tradition is (not) modern : deterritorializing globalization / Jane M. Jacobs; value: The tradition of the end : global capitalism and the contemporary spaces of Apocalypse / Katharyne Mitchell; value: Nostalgias of the modern / Ananya Roy; value: Nature and tradition at the border : landscaping the end of the nation state / Matthew Sparke; value: The tensed embrace of tourism and traditional environments : exclusionary practices in Cancun, Cuba, and southern Florida / Robert Mugerauer; value: Architecture and the production of postcard images : invocations of tradition vs. critical transnationalism in Curitiba / Clara Irazabal; value: Tradition as a means to the end of tradition : farmer's houses in Italy's Fascist-era new towns / Mia Fuller; value: Cultural identity and architectural image in Bo-Kaap, Cape Town / Fabio Todeschini and Derek Japha; value: The latency of tradition : on the vicissitudes of walls in contemporary China / Duanfang Lu; value: Seizing locality in Jerusalem / Alona Nitzan-Shiftan.