I.  Postmodern Space     II. Postmodern Cities     III.  Postcolonial Spatial Strategies      IV.  Postmodern Space and/in  Postmodern Space,  Boby & Gender  Postmodern Space in Cinema  Postmodern Space in Literature

 

• Benko, George, & Ulf Strohmayer, eds.  Space and Social History: Interpreting Modernity and Postmodernity.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1997.
• Foucault, Michel.   "Of Other Spaces." Diacritics (1986): 22-7.
• Genocchio, Benjamin. "Discourse, Discontinuity, Difference." Postmodern Cities and Spaces. Ed. Sophie Watson & Katherine Gibson. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1995: 35-46.
• Gottdiener, M. & A. Ph. Lagopoulos ed.  The City and the sign.  NY: Columbia UP. (Barthes, et al)

---.   Postmodern Semiotics: Material Culture and the Forms of Postmodern Life. Cambridge:
 Blackwell,1995.　
(On the malls, Disneyland, the role od signs and advertising in late capitalism, fashion, the body, rock subcultures, and the question of identity.)　
• Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity: An Inquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change.  Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 1989. (on postmodern architecture and economics)

    "A great deal has been written on what has variously been described as the postmodern condition and on postmodern culture, architecture, art and society. in this new book, David Harvey seeks to determine what is meant by the term in its different contexts and to identify how accurate and useful it is as a description of contemporary experience.
     "But the book is much more than this: in the course of his investigation the author provides a social and semantic history -- from the Enlightenment to the present -- of modernism and its expression in politcal and social ideas and movements, as well as in art, literature and architecture. He considers in particular how the meaning and perception of time and space themselves vary over time and space, and shows that this variance affects individual values and social processes of the most fundamental kind."  from the back cover　
• Soja, Edward W. Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory. NY: Verso, 1989.　
• ---.   Third Space: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagined Places.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.
• Tester, Keith, ed.  The Flaneur.  NY: Routledge, 1994. 　
• Watson, Sophie & Katherine Gibson, eds. Postmodern Cities and Spaces. Cambridge: Blackwell,1995.
• Lash, Scott and John Urry.  Economies of Signs and Space.  London: Sage, 1994. 301.01 L334

 
(from the back cover) Focusing on post-industrial economies, the study examines social inequality and changing experiences of time, space, culture, travel, the environment and globalization.  Through a comparative analysis of the UK and USA, Germany and Japan, Lash and Urry show how restructuration after organized capitalism has its basis in increasingly reflexive social actors and organizations. . . .

In exploring this new reflexive world, Lash and Urry argue that today's economies are increasingly economies of signs - information, symbols, images, desire -- and of space, where both signs and social subjects - refugees, financiers, tourists, flaneurs - are mobile over ever greater distances.
 

• Lefebvre, H.  (1991)  The production of Space.  London: Basil Blackwell.
• Liggett, Helen  & David C. Perry, eds.   Spatial Practices: Critical Explorations in Social/Spatial Theory.

                London: Sage, 1995.
• 夏鑄九編譯.  《空間，歷史與社會》.   台北︰台灣社會研究叢刊03．1995.
• 夏鑄九,王志弘編譯．  《空間的文化形式與社會理論讀本》．  台北市 : 明文, 民82[1993].
• 王志弘  《流動、空間與社會》．  台北︰田園城市文化，1998.
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II. Postmodern Cities

•   General
• Greer, Scott.  Emerging City: Myth and Reality.  London: Transaction Publishers, 1999.
• Hannigan, John.  Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis.  NY: Routledge, 1998.　

 
  Individual Cities
  Canadian Cities:
• Breton, Raymond, et al.  Ethnic Identity and Equality: Varieties of Experience in a Canadian City. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1990.  Caulfield, Jon.
• City Form and Everyday Life: Toronto's Gentrification and Critical Social Practice.  Toronto: U of Toronto P: 1994.
• Delany, Paul, ed.  Vancouver: Representing the Postmodern City. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp P, 1994.  (a review)
• Jackson, Peter.  "Policing Difference: 'race' and crime in metropolitan Toronto."  Constuctions of Race, Place and Nation. Eds. Peter Jackson & Jan Penrose. U of Minnesota P, 1994: 181-200.
• Keith, W.J.  Literary Images of Ontario.  Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1992.
• Kent Gerecke, ed.  The Canadian City. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1991.

 
  Taipei

• 李清志．  《鳥國狂︰世紀末台北空間文化現象》．  台北：創興，1995.
• 詹宏志．  《城市人：城市空間的感覺、符號和解釋》．  台北：麥田，1996.
• 顏忠賢．  《不在場□台北──八○年代台灣都市小說的書寫空間策略》．  《台灣現代小說史研討會》．  台北：1997, 12.
• 謝仁昌編．  《尋找電影中的台北》．   台北：金馬獎，1995.
• 鄭明俐編．  《當代台灣都市文學論：以世紀末視角透視文學書寫中的都市現象》．  台北：人間，1995.
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III.  Postcolonial Spatial Strategies

• Bhabha, Homi.  "The Third Space."  Rutherford, Jonathan ed.  Identity: Community, Culture, Difference.  London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1990.
• de Certeau, Michel. The Practice of Everyday Life. Trans. Steven Rendall. Berkeley: U of California P, 1984.
• ---.  Capture of Speech and Other Political Writings.    Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1998.
• ---.   Culture in the Plural.   Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1998.
• Jacobs, Jane M. Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City. NY: Routledge, 1996.　　　
• Keith, Miachael & Steve Pile, eds. Place and the Politics of Identity. NY: Routledge, 1993.
• Probyn, Elspeth. "Travels in the Postmodern: Making Sense of the Local."  Feminism/Postmodernism. Ed. Linda Nicholson. NY: Routledge, 1990.
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Postmodern Space, Boby & Gender
• Grosz, Elizabeth. "Bodies-Cities."  Sexuality and Space. Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992.
•  Duncan, Nancy, ed.  Body Space: Destablizing Geography of Gender and Sexuality.  NY: Routledge,1996.

 
Postmodern Space in Cinema
• Clarke, David B., ed.  The Cinematic City.  New York: Routledge, 1997.

 
Postmodern Space in Literature
• Lehan, Richard.  The City in Literature.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.

 
Place and Culture
• Duncan, James & David Ley, ed.  Place/Culture/Representation.  NY: Routledge: 1993.

[articles on house, Canadian multiculturalism and institution, landscape metaphors, etc.]

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