Postmetropolis
Subtitle: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: May 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9781577180012
Subjects: City & town planning - architectural aspects; Cultural studies; Urban communities; Sociology - Urban; Social Science; Sociology; Spatial behavior; CITIES AND TOWNS_UNITED STATES; CITY PLANNING_UNITED STATES; LOS ANGELES (CALIF.)_SOCIAL CONDITIONS; Social Science / Sociology / Urban; URBAN GEOGRAPHY; Postmodernism; Sociology - General; Cities and towns; Metropolitan areas; Urbanization
First sentence: As with Lewis Mumford's The City in History, Postmetropolis opens with a city that was symbolically a world - the very first such "city-world" in human history - and closes with a world that, in so many ways, has become very much like a city, where urban ways of life extend to every corner of the globe.