Imagineering Atlanta: The Politics of Place in the City of Dreams

by Charles Rutheiser

Book Overview

In the age of decentralization, instant communications, and the subordination of locality to the demands of a globalizing market, contemporary cities have taken on place-less or a-geographic characters. They have become phantasmagorical landscapes. Atlanta, argues Charles Rutheiser, is in many ways paradigmatic of this generic urbanism. As such, it provides a fertile ground for investigating the play of culture, power and place within a "non-place...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859841457
• ISBN13: 9781859841457
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"