This book is about the contemporary city and those who live in it. It is thus also about the urban world of the era (extending roughly from the 1960s to the present) that we see as postmodern, and specifically about how the postmodern city is changing under the impact of globalization and new information and communication technologies. In particular, Geyh explores how the urban...(展开全部)

In their depiction of the city, movies carry a multiplicity of means through which to reveal elements of culture, architecture, and history. Projected Cities surveys the connections between cinematic images and cities, with particular focus on the urban cinema cultures of Europe and Japan. It explores urban film imagery at moments of turmoil and experimentation, and assesses th...(展开全部)

安德鲁·查德威克（Andrew Chadwick），伦敦大学皇家霍洛威学院政治与国际关系系政治学高级讲师。2004年担任牛津大学出版社牛津互联网研究所客座研究员，研究涉猎广泛，包括电子政务、电子民主和互联网动员，文章多见诸各大学术期刊。 译者简介： 任孟山，传播学博士、资深新闻评论员，现供职于中国传媒大学国际传播研究中心，研究领域为国际传播、政治传播和网络传播。 丛书主编简介： 陈卫星，四川人。法国司汤达大学信息传播学博士，中国传媒大学教授。学术研究领域包括传播学理论、国际传播和媒介文化，代表性论著有《传播的观念》。

A critical assessment of the preoccupations of contemporary society and the political crisis posed by cynicism. Melancholic and introspective, ironical and apolitical, the urban cynic is a myth of our time. A casualty of modernization? Or a product of postmodernism? In this original and provocative book, Timothy Bewes undertakes a descent into the modern cynical consciousness, ...(展开全部)

*What is distinctive about urban life? *What key trends have shaped the contemporary city? *How have the city and urban cultures been explained by sociology and cultural studies? This is the first book to explore cities and urban life from the perspectives of both sociology and cultural theory. Through an interdisciplinary approach and use of case material, the book demonstrate...(展开全部)

When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression. Modern civilization depends upon the constraint of impulse, the limiting of self expression. Today, in the time of modernity, Bauman argues, Freuda s analysis no longer holds good, if it ever did. The regulation of desire turns from an irritating necessity into an assault against in...(展开全部)

This popular and influential work, translated here into English for the first time, argues that modern urbanism has upset the morphology of cities, abolished their streets and isolated their buildings. In tracing the stages of this transformation, this book presents the view that the urban tissue, the intermediate scale between the architecture of buildings and the diagrammatic...(展开全部)