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Spaces of global cultures : architecture, urbanism, identity
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The architext series
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Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2004
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9780415196192

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This book brings together a series of new and historical case studies to show how different phases of globalization are transforming the built environment. Taking a broad interdisciplinary approach, the author draws on sociological, geographical, cultural and postcolonial studies to provide a critical account of the development of three key concepts: global culture, post colonialism, and modernity. Subsequent case studies examine how global economic, political and cultural forces shape the forms of architectural and urban modernity in globalized suburbs and spaces in major cities worldwide.


The first book to combine global and postcolonial theoretical approaches to the built environment and to illustrate these with examples, Spaces of Global Cultures argues for a more historical and interdisciplinary understanding of globalization: one that places material space and the built environment at the centre and calls for new theories to address new conditions.


Author Notes

Anthony D. King is Bartle Professor of Art History and of Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton. He has been Visiting Professor in Architecture, University of Califonia Berkeley and, for five years, Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.


Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I Theories
1 Worlds in the City: Wonders of Modern Design to Weapons of Mass Destruction
2 Interrogating Global Culture(s)
3 Cultures and Spaces of Postcolonial Knowledges
4 The Times and Spaces of Modernities
5 Writing Transnational Planning Histories: The Dialectics of Dual Development
Part II Histories
6 Suburb/Ethnoburb/Globurb: The Making of Contemporary Modernities
7 Villafication: The Transformation of Chinese Cities
8 Imagining the World at Home: The Distant Spaces of the Indian City
9 Transnational Delhi Revisited: The Spatial Language of Three Modernities
10 Imperialism, Colonialism and Architects of the Arts and Crafts in Britain
Part III Pasts/Presents/Futures
11 Ways of Seeing: Serendipity, Visuality, Experience