Cities and Urban Cultures (South Asian Edition) -Hardcover

This is the first book to explore duties and urban life from the perspectives of both sociology and cultural theory. Through an interdisciplinary approach and use of case studies, Cities and Urban Cultures demonstrates that the 'real' city of physicality and struggle and the 'imagined' city of representations are entwined in the construction of urban cultures. Starting with a comparison of the rural and the urban, it considers ways on imagiming the city and of conceptuazing urban cultures. It goes on to investigate the implications of several pivotal urban and cultural trends, such as the use of the arts and local cultures in forging new images for cities and the ways in which modernism, postmodernism and globalization have shaped the built environment and the orientation of academia enquiry. Also examined is the way in which representations of the urban landscape in film, literature, art, and popular texts, have informed dominant ideas about the way certain city spaces-including city centers, urban waterfronts, and so-called 'global cities'-should look, function and 'feel'.