Postmodernism and the localities debate : ontological questions and epistemological implications
forme générale d'explication en sciences sociales. Quatre critères en faveur d'une géographie réellement postmoderne sont présentés : complexité, contexte, contingence et critique. Evaluation critique des lieux selon ce point de vue.
Postmodernism and the city : Mediterranean versions
The A. argues that, by focusing on areas of the world with cultures and political histories different from those of the core of Europe and the USA, postmodernism is not as new, nor does it follow modernism as distinctively and neatly as is believed
expression of the postmodern city, Disneyland, demonstrates that contemporary urban landscapes are complicated and contradictory sites that embed dominant cultural relations and creative resistance to them.
Metropolitan planning objectives and implementation constraints: planning in a post-Fordist and postmodern age
Planning faces the predicament that as recommendations become bolder, possibilities for implementation deteriorate. This is imputed to society's transition from a Fordist and modern to a post-Fordist and postmodern era. The context is marked
The imagineering of resistance : Pollock Free State and the practice of postmodern politics
of an ecological encampment located in the projected path of the motorway. Such resistance is characteristic of a postmodern political practice. It is symbolic and extensively mediated.
Postmodern urban politics in South Africa : the case of Stellenbosch (2000-2004)
The paper adopts a postmodern perspective to account for post2000 electoral urban politics in the municipality of Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa. The significance of the changes in the political party control of the municipality
Commentaire critique des ouvrages récents de E. Soja Postmodern geographies et de D. Harvey The condition of postmodernity . L'A. souligne que si le modernisme porte une marque patriarcale certaine, le postmodernisme offre d'autres possibilités
Long commentaire à propos d'un des derniers ouvrages de D. Harvey, The condition of postmodernity (1989), où l'A. relève les erreurs commises par D. H. concernant le sexe de certains auteurs et artistes, et critique la conception doctrinale de
This contribution aims at comparing conventional approaches, sustained by the modern cultural background, and the approaches of postmodernity. Reasoning is based on the distinction between the ontological, semiotic and epistemological levels
. It leads to considering the landscape as a critical component of the discourse on the representation, and to distinguishing three approaches : the modern, the late modern, and the postmodern ones.
Remapping Los Angeles, or, taking the risk of class in postmodern urban theory
Etude du changement urbain et de la restructuration urbaine à Los Angeles. La structuration de la ville en classes sociales se concrétise par une polarisation spatiale et des éléments caractéristiques de l'urbanisme postmoderne. Les réponses
La critique postmoderne et le courant communicationnel au sein des théories de la planification : une rencontre difficile
La critique postmoderne n'est pas la seule à occuper l'avant-scène des débats au sein des théories de la planification. Le courant communicationnel a aussi contribué à renouveler les perspectives de la planification moderne. L'A. se demande jusqu'à
Fences and neighbours in the postmodern world : boundary narratives in political geography
constructions sociales théoriques. Les études récentes analysent les idées postmodernes de territorialité et la disparition des frontières, la construction d'identités socio-spatiales, et les différentes dimensions (échelles) de la recherche sur les frontières
Zones résidentielles fermées comme symbole de la ville postmoderne : exemple de Prague
The aim of this article is to present gated communities in Prague in the context of postmodern urbanization. The article focuses on the spatial distribution of gated communities, their social structure and the causes of emergence
of these residential objects. The article shows that there is no statistically demonstrable logic behind the spatial distribution of gated communities in Prague. The emergence of gated communities in Prague is linked with various processes of postmodern urbanism
Der touristische Blick im Städtetourismus der Postmoderne. Das Beispiel der italienischen Stadt Florenz
using florence/Italy as an example. It is shown that urban tourism in postmodern times is characterised by a diversity of different gazes. Finally, the chances and limitations of Urry's concept are discussed. the article is based on results of an ongoing