{"product_id":"postmetropolis-isbn-9781577180012","title":"Postmetropolis","description":"This 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. \u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Remapping the Geohistory of Cityspace 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOutlining the Geohistory of Cityspace 4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefining the Conceptual Framework 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe spatial specificity of urbanism 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe trialectics of cityspace 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSynekism: the stimulus of urban agglomeration 12\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe regionality of cityspace 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Putting Cities First 19\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRe-excavating the Origins of Urbanism 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe conventional sequence: hunting and gathering – agriculture – villages – cities – states 20\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA provocative inversion: putting cities first 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLearning from Jericho 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLearning from Çatal Hüyük 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJames Mellaart and the urban Neolithic 36\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLearning from New Obsidian 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLearning more from Çatal Hüyük 46\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 The Second Urban Revolution 50\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Urbanization 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSpace, Knowledge, and Power in Sumeria 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUr and the New Urbanism 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFast Forward \u0026gt;\u0026gt; to the Third Urban Revolution 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 The Third Urban Revolution: Modernity and Urban-industrial Capitalism 71\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCityspace and the Succession of Modernities 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rise of the Modern Industrial Metropolis 76\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMade in Manchester 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRemade in Chicago 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Metropolis in Crisis 95\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRehearsing the Break: the Urban Crisis of the 1960s 95\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eManuel Castells and the Urban Question 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDavid Harvey’s Social Justice and the City 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummarizing the Geohistory of Capitalist Cityspace 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 An Introduction to the Conurbation of Greater Los Angeles 117\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLos Angeles – from Space: A View from My Window 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Perpetual Alternation Between Vision and its Forgetting 121\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1870–1900: the WASPing of Los Angeles 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1900–1920: the Regressive–Progressive Era 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1920–1940: roaring from war to war 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1940–1970: the Big Orange explodes 131\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLooking back to the future: Los Angeles in 1965 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1970 and beyond: the New Urbanization 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis 145\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBorder Dialogues: Previewing the Postmetropolitan Discourses 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConceptualizing the New Urbanization Processes 148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGrounding the Discourses 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 The Postfordist Industrial Metropolis: Restructuring the Geopolitical Economy of Urbanism 156\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRepresentative Texts 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePathways into Urban Worlds of Production 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe geographical anatomy of industrial urbanism 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProduction-work-territory: reworking the divisions of labor 160\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eManufacturing matters: against postindustrial sociology 164\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrossing industrial divides 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePost-ford-ism 169\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe empowerment of flexibility 171\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGetting lean and mean: the surge in inequality 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInto the regional world: the rediscovery of synekism 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLocalizing Industrial Urbanism 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostfordist industrial cartographies 181\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDevelopmental dynamics of the industrial complex 185\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConcluding in the realm of public policy 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Cosmopolis: The Globalization of Cityspace 189\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRepresentative Texts 189\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecomposing the Discourse on Globalization 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe globality of production and the production of globality 192\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRegional worlds of globalization 197\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew geographies of power 202\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAdding culture to the global geopolitical economy 208\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe reconstruction of social meaning in the space of flows 212\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobalized neoliberalism: a brief note 216\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMetropolis Unbound: Conceptualizing Globalized Cityspace 218\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe world city hypothesis 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommanding our attention: the rise of global cities 222\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUrban dualism, the Informational City and the urban-regional process 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe turn to cosmopolis 229\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Exopolis: The Restructuring of Urban Form 233\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRepresentative Texts 233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMetropolis Transformed 234\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMegacities and metropolitan galaxies 235\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOuter Cities, postsuburbia, and the end of the Metropolis Era 238\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEdge Cities and the optimistic envisioning of postmetropolitan geographies 243\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCity Lite and postmetropolitan nostalgia 246\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSimulating the New Urbanism 248\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExopolis as synthesis 250\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRepresenting the Exopolis in Los Angeles 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStarting in the New Downtown 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInner City blues 254\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe middle landscape 258\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOff-the-edge cities 259\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 Fractal City: Metropolarities and the Restructured Social Mosaic 264\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRepresentative Texts 264\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eManufacturing Inequality in the Postmetropolis 266\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNormalizing inequality: the extremes at both ends 267\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVariations on the theme of intrinsic causality 268\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDescribing metropolarities: empirical sociologies and labor market dynamics 272\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoving beyond equality politics 279\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRemapping the Fractal City of Los Angeles 282\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn overview of the ethnic mosaic 283\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMono-ethnic geographies: segregating cityspace 291\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMulticultural geographies: mapping diversity 294\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 The Carceral Archipelago: Governing Space in the Postmetropolis 298\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRepresentative Texts 298\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConceptualizing the Carceral Archipelago 299\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFortress L.A. and the rhetoric of social warfare 300\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe destruction of public space and the architectonics of security-obsessed urbanism 303\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolicing space: doing time in Los Angeles 307\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEntering the Forbidden City: the imprisonment of Downtown 309\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHomegrown Revolution: HOAs, CIDs, gated communities, and insular lifestyles 312\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeyond the Blade Runner scenario: the spatial restructuring of urban governmentality 319\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 Simcities: Restructuring the Urban Imaginary 323\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRepresentative Texts 323\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRe-imagining Cityspace: Travels in Hyperreality 324\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJean Baudrillard and the precession of simulacra 326\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCeleste Olalquiaga and postmodern psychasthenia 330\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCyberspace and the electronic generation of hyperreality 333\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eM. Christine Boyer and the imaginary real world of Cybercities 337\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSimcities, Simcitizens, and hyperreality-generated crisis 339\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSimAmerica: a concluding critique 345\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Lived Space: Rethinking 1992 in Los Angeles 349\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 351\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 LA 1992: Overture to a Conclusion 355\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRevisionings 355\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBodies, Cities, Texts: The Case of Citizen Rodney King (by Barbara Hooper) 359\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInscriptions 359\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSomatography: the order in place 361\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Trial: Us v. Them 368\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13 LA 1992: The Spaces of Representation 372\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvent-Geography-Remembering 372\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVisible antipodes: Inner versus Outer City 373\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNormalized enclosures: the development of common interests 376\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Invisible Riots Remembered 379\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDowntowns: this is not the 1960s 379\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePico-Union and the desaparacidos 386\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSa-i-ku and other commemorations 389\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA repetitive ending 392\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e14 Postscript: Critical Reflections on the Postmetropolis 396\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Beginnings I: Postmetropolis in Crisis 396\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe downturn of postfordism 397\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eToo fulsome globalization? 399\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSuddenly everywhere is Pomona 401\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRepadded white bunkers 402\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeconstructed modes of regulation 403\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSimgovernment in crisis 405\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew Beginnings II: Struggles for Spatial Justice and Regional Democracy 407\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 416\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eName Index 431\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject Index 436\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Traditional sociological and urban design critiques of the American city have left vacant a wide middle ground of critical enquiry. Between statistical analysis and physical critique, Edward Soja attempts to bridge the divide by proposing a 'third way' for urban studies. The result is a broad overview, ranging between sociological and cultural points of view, with the provocative possibility of pairing the two in a new urban paradigm.\" \u003ci\u003eTom Leslie, World Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Coming to the field as a relative novice, I found this book more straightforward and thought provoking than I expected...it is sure to be of interest and value to students and researchers alike.\" \u003ci\u003eRegional Studies.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Postmetropolis\u003c\/i\u003e effectively illuminates the rich complexity and multidisciplinary of urban and regional restructuring in the current era... will serve as a useful resource.\" \u003ci\u003eJournal of Economic and Social Geography.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePostmetropolis\u003c\/i\u003e is magisterial in its historic sweep\" \u003ci\u003eThomas L. Bell, University of Tennessee.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\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).  \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 \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","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989823078629,"sku":"NP9781577180012","price":51.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781577180012.jpg?v=1761785580","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/postmetropolis-isbn-9781577180012","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}