THE IRON LOTUS - LOS-ANGELES AND POSTMODERN URBANISM

Authors
DEAR M FLUSTY S
Citation
M. Dear et S. Flusty, THE IRON LOTUS - LOS-ANGELES AND POSTMODERN URBANISM, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 551, 1997, pp. 151-163
Citations number
26
Categorie Soggetti
Political Science","Social, Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Journal title
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science → ACNP
ISSN journal
00027162
Volume
551
Year of publication
1997
Pages
151 - 163
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-7162(1997)551:<151:TIL-LA>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
In this article, we examine the landscapes of Los Angeles for evidence of a postmodern urbanism. We begin by contrasting the principles of t he Chicago school's modernist industrial metropolis with the putativel y postmodern Los Angeles school. We then examine the range of contempo rary Southern California urbanisms and interpret this evidence as defi ning the problematic of a distinctively postmodern urbanism embedded w ithin an emergent global capitalism.