The end of tradition? [electronic resource] / edited by Nezar AlSayyad.

Contributor(s): AlSayyad, Nezar | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004Description: xi, 266 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Tradition (Philosophy) | Globalization -- Social aspects | Globalization -- Political aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 148 LOC classification: B105.T7 | E53 2004Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
The end of tradition, or the tradition of endings / Nezar AlSayyad -- Tradition 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-257) and index.

The end of tradition, or the tradition of endings / Nezar AlSayyad -- Tradition 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.

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