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Autore |
Alsayyad Nezar |
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Titolo |
The End of Tradition? [[electronic resource]] |
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Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (278 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Globalization - Political aspects |
Globalization - Social aspects |
Tradition (Philosophy) |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; The End of Tradition?; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Illustration credits and sources; Contributors; 1 The End of Tradition, or the Tradition of Endings?; I. Traditions of the Modern; 2 Tradition is (not) Modern: Deterritorializing Globalization; 3 The Tradition of the End: Global Capitalism and the Contemporary Spaces of Apocalypse; 4 Nostalgias of the Modern; II. Invented Landscapes; 5 Nature and Tradition at the Border: Landscaping the End of the Nation State |
6 The Tensed Embrace of Tourism and Traditional Environments: Exclusionary Practices in Cancún, Cuba, and Southern Florida7 Architecture and the Production of Postcard Images: Invocations of Tradition vs. Critical Transnationalism in Curitiba; III. Programmes of Tradition; 8 Tradition as a Means to the End of Tradition: Farmers' Houses in Italy's Fascist-Era New Towns; 9 Cultural Identity and Architectural Image in Bo-Kaap, Cape Town; 10 The Latency of Tradition: On the Vicissitudes of Walls in Contemporary China; 11 Seizing Locality in Jerusalem; Selected Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Rooted in real world observations, this book questions the concept of tradition - whether contemporary globalization will prove its demise or whether there is a process of simultaneous ending and renewing. In his |
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