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Part I: Remapping the Geohistory of Cityspace p.1, Introduction p.3, Outlining the Geohistory of Cityspace p.4, Defining the Conceptual Framework p.6, The spatial specificity of urbanism p.7, The trialectics of cityspace p.10, Synekism: the stimulus of urban agglomeration p.12, The regionality of cityspace p.16, 1. Putting Cities First p.19, Re-excavating the Origins of Urbanism p.19, The conventional sequence: hunting and gathering – agriculture – villages – cities – states p.20, A provocative inversion: putting cities first p.24, Learning from Jericho p.27, Learning from Çatal Huyuk p.36, James Mellaart and the urban Neolithic p.36, Learning from New Obsidian p.42, Learning more from Çatal Huyuk p.46, 2. The Second Urban Revolution p.50, The New Urbanization p.51, Space, Knowledge, and Power in Sumeria p.55, Ur and the New Urbanism p.60, Fast Forward to the Third Urban Revolution p.67, 3. The Third Urban Revolution: Modernity and Urban-industrial Capitalism p.71, Cityspace and the Succession of Modernities p.72, The Rise of the Modern Industrial Metropolis p.76, Made in Manchester p.78, Remade in Chicago p.84, 4. Metropolis in Crisis p.95, Rehearsing the Break: the Urban Crisis of the 1960s p.95, Manuel Castells and the Urban Question p.100, David Harvey’s Social Justice and the City p.105, Summarizing the Geohistory of Capitalist Cityspace p.109, 5. An Introduction to the Conurbation of Greater Los Angeles p.117, Los Angeles – from Space: A View from My Window p.120, A Perpetual Alternation Between Vision and its Forgetting p.121, 1870–1900: the WASPing of Los Angeles p.123, 1900–1920: the Regressive–Progressive Era p.127, 1920–1940: roaring from war to war p.129, 1940–1970: the Big Orange explodes p.131, Looking back to the future: Los Angeles in 1965 p.135, 1970 and beyond: the New Urbanization p.140, Part II: Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis p.145, Introduction p.147, Border Dialogues: Previewing the Postmetropolitan Discourses p.147, Conceptualizing the New Urbanization Processes p.148, Grounding the Discourses p.154, 6. The Postfordist Industrial Metropolis: Restructuring the Geopolitical Economy of Urbanism p.156, Representative Texts p.156, Pathways into Urban Worlds of Production p.157, The geographical anatomy of industrial urbanism p.157, Production-work-territory: reworking the divisions of labor p.160, Manufacturing matters: against postindustrial sociology p.164, Crossing industrial divides p.166, Post-ford-ism p.169, The empowerment of flexibility p.171, Getting lean and mean: the surge in inequality p.173, Into the regional world: the rediscovery of synekism p.175, Localizing Industrial Urbanism p.180, Postfordist industrial cartographies p.181, Developmental dynamics of the industrial complex p.185, Concluding in the realm of public policy p.187, 7. Cosmopolis: The Globalization of Cityspace p.189, Representative Texts p.189, Recomposing the Discourse on Globalization p.191, The globality of production and the production of globality p.192, Regional worlds of globalization p.197, New geographies of power p.202, Adding culture to the global geopolitical economy p.208, The reconstruction of social meaning in the space of flows p.212, Globalized neoliberalism: a brief note p.216, Metropolis Unbound: Conceptualizing Globalized Cityspace p.218, The world city hypothesis p.219, Commanding our attention: the rise of global cities p.222, Urban dualism, the Informational City and the urban-regional process p.227, The turn to cosmopolis p.229, 8. Exopolis: The Restructuring of Urban Form p.233, Representative Texts p.233, Metropolis Transformed p.234, Megacities and metropolitan galaxies p.235, Outer Cities, postsuburbia, and the end of the Metropolis Era p.238, Edge Cities and the optimistic envisioning of postmetropolitan geographies p.243, City Lite and postmetropolitan nostalgia p.246, Simulating the New Urbanism p.248, Exopolis as synthesis p.250, Representing the Exopolis in Los Angeles p.251, Starting in the New Downtown p.251, Inner City blues p.254, The middle landscape p.258, Off-the-edge cities p.259, 9. Fractal City: Metropolarities and the Restructured Social Mosaic p.264, 10. The Carceral Archipelago: Governing Space in the Postmetropolis p.298, 11. Simcities: Restructuring the Urban Imaginary p.323, Part III: Lived Space: Rethinking 1992 in Los Angeles p.349, Introduction 351, 12 LA 1992: Overture to a Conclusion: Revisionings p.355, 13 LA 1992: The Spaces of Representation: Event-Geography-Remembering p.372, 14. Postscript: Critical Reflections on the Postmetropolis: New Beginnings I: Postmetropolis in Crisis 396 |
