The end of tradition? / edited by Nezar AlSayyad.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

AlSayyad, Nezar.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tradition (Philosophy).

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Globalization--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

xi, 266 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

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 Cancún, Cuba, and southern Florida / Robert Mugerauer

Architecture and the production of postcard images : invocations of tradition vs. critical transnationalism in Curitiba / Clara Irazábal

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-257) and index.

ISBN:

0415290406

0415290414

OCLC:

52978977