ISBN:
0415290406
,
0415290414
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 266 S
,
Ill., Kt
,
24 cm
DDC:
148
Keywords:
Tradition (Philosophy)
;
Globalization Social aspects
;
Globalization Political aspects
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Philosophie
;
Tradition
;
Globalisierung
;
Philosophie
;
Tradition
;
Globalisierung
Description / Table of Contents:
The end of tradition, or the tradition of endings / Nezar AlSayyadTradition is (not) modern : deterritorializing globalization / Jane M. Jacobs -- The tradition of the end : global capitalism and the contemporary spaces of Apocalypse / Katharyne Mitchell -- Nostalgias of the modern / Ananya Roy -- Nature and tradition at the border : landscaping the end of the nation state / Matthew Sparke -- The tensed embrace of tourism and traditional environments : exclusionary practices in Cancun, Cuba, and southern Florida / Robert Mugerauer -- Architecture and the production of postcard images : invocations of tradition vs. critical transnationalism in Curitiba / Clara Irazabal -- Tradition as a means to the end of tradition : farmer's houses in Italy's Fascist-era new towns / Mia Fuller -- Cultural identity and architectural image in Bo-Kaap, Cape Town / Fabio Todeschini and Derek Japha -- The latency of tradition : on the vicissitudes of walls in contemporary China / Duanfang Lu -- Seizing locality in Jerusalem / Alona Nitzan-Shiftan.
Description / Table of Contents:
Includes bibliographical references
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