{"product_id":"postmetropolis-critical-studies-of-cities-and-regions-paperback","title":"Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdward W. Soja\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis completes Ed Soja's trilogy on urban studies, which began with Postmodern Geographies and continued with Thirdspace. It is the first comprehensive text in the growing field of critical urban studies to deal with the dramatically restructured megacities that have emerged world-wide over the last half of the twentieth-century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePostmetropolis\u003c\/i\u003e completes Edward Soja's trilogy aimed at expanding the scope and critical insight of our spatial imaginations. Applying the theoretical frameworks developed in \u003ci\u003ePostmodern Geographies\u003c\/i\u003e (1989) and \u003ci\u003eThirdspace\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), it is the first comprehensive text in the growing field of critical urban and regional studies to deal with the dramatically restructured megacities that emerged worldwide over the last half of the twentieth century. At its core is a lively discussion of six discourses that have coalesced around explaining what Soja calls the postmetropolitan transition, a major sea change in how we live in cities and experience urbanism as a way of life. To provide depth to these discussions, the book begins with a rethinking of the debates on the origins of cities, the geohistorical evolution of urban form, and the dynamic relations between society and space in the specific context of urban agglomerations.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to being an innovative text in urban and regional studies and an insightful application of new approaches to interpreting the spatiality of human life, \u003ci\u003ePostmetropolis\u003c\/i\u003e is also a book about contemporary Los Angeles, a vivid and far-reaching interpretation of its turbulent recent history and geography. The book concludes with a look back to the civil unrest of 1992 to portray the postmetropolis in explosive crisis as well as to draw some hope for the future based on new coalition-based struggles for spatial justice and regional democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdward W Soja\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has written extensively on urban social life, planning and theory. His previous books include \u003ci\u003ePostmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory\u003c\/i\u003e (Verso, 1989)and \u003ci\u003eThirdspace \u003c\/i\u003e(Blackwell, 1996).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.98 x 9.66 x 6.68 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 18, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47426787737778,"sku":"9781577180012","price":120.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/0605b1f7b86cc64394379a8dbc7c0cb0.webp?v=1778517286","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/postmetropolis-critical-studies-of-cities-and-regions-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}