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Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis by Edward W. Soja

Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis by Edward W. Soja. Helen Ho Nov. 2013. Urban Region of Los Angeles. http://www.americanhomeshow.net/losangeles/images/losangeles.pic.9.jpg. Urban Region of Los Angeles. Orange County Postmodern fiscal crisis of Orange County in 1994. Postmetropolis.

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Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis by Edward W. Soja

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  1. Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis by Edward W. Soja HelenHo Nov. 2013

  2. Urban Region of Los Angeles http://www.americanhomeshow.net/losangeles/images/losangeles.pic.9.jpg

  3. Urban Region of Los Angeles • Orange County • Postmodern fiscal crisis of Orange County in 1994

  4. Postmetropolis • Understanding the postmetropolis requires a variety of creative recombination of micro and macro perspectives, views from above and from below, a new critical synthesis that rejects the rigidities of either/ or choices for the both/ and also.

  5. Six Discourses on the Postmetropolis • FLEXCITY • COSMOPOLIS • EXOPOLIS • METROPOLARITIES • CARCERAL ARCHIPELAGOS • SIMCITIES

  6. FLEXCITY • On the restructuring of the political economy of urbanization and the formation of the more flexibly specialized post- Fordist industrial metropolis.

  7. FLEXCITY • Continued intimate relation between industrialisation and urbanisation process. • De-industrialisation has been occurring alongside a potent re-industrialization process. built on: ♣high-technology electronics production ♣cheap labour-intensive forms of craft production ♣the expansion of producer-oriented services and technology

  8. Silicon Valley http://www.iappcontest.com/.a/6a01310f4ee8be970c0133f2601b0b970b-pi

  9. COSMOPOLIS • On the globalization of urban capital, labour and culture and the formation of a new hierarchy of global cities.

  10. COSMOPOLIS • The vanity of the bonFIRES and it referred to what an over-concentration on the command and control functions of the FIRE sector (finance, insurance, real estate) in the global cities literature and a closely related overemphasis on two tiny sites where these commanding bonFIRES appear to be burning most brightly. • Wall Street in Manhattan • The City in London

  11. The Wall Street http://binary-options-strategy.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Wall-Street-Exposed.jpg

  12. EXOPOLIS • On the restructuring of urban form and the growth of edge cities, outer cities and postsuburbia: the metropolis turned inside-out and inside-in.

  13. EXOPOLIS • The growth of Outer Cities and Edge Cities and other manifestation of the rather oxymoronic urbanization of suburbia • A dramatic reconstitution of the Inner City: outmigration of domestic populations immigration of 'Third World' workers and cultures

  14. Beijing http://www.kotoc114.com/data/cheditor4/1308/nlkPbRkXZOATmQHA8UB1GSHGq.jpg

  15. METROPOLARITIES • On the restructured social mosaic and the emergence of new polarizations and inequalities. • Attracts largest number of urban sociologists.

  16. METROPOLARITIES • Increasing social inequalities, widening income gaps, new kinds of social polarization and stratification that fit uncomfortably within traditional dualisms based on class (capital-labour) or race (white-black) as well as conventional upper-middle-lower class models of urban society. • e.g. dinks, upper professionals, the new technocracy, the working poor, the new orphans...

  17. Disparity Gap of the United States • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ70hiltOdw

  18. Disparity Gap of the United States http://mrhyper.blogspot.tw/2013/03/blog-post.html

  19. CARCERAL ARCHIPELAGOS • On the rise of fortress cities, surveillant technologies and the substitution of police for polis.

  20. CARCERAL ARCHIPELAGOS • City of Quartz, Mike Davis • Los Angeles: fortified city e.g. ♣bulging prisons ♣sadistic street environments ♣gated and armed-guarded places ♣high-tech space police • 'carceral' technologies of violence and social control

  21. Gated http://pic1a.nipic.com/2008-12-15/20081215135658545_2.jpg

  22. SIMCITIES • On the restructured urban imaginary and the increasing hyper reality of everyday life.

  23. SIMCITIES • On the postmetropolis as Simcity, a place where simulations of a presumably real world increasingly capture and activate our urban imaginary and infiltrate everyday urban life. • Hyper-reality • e.g. passing through gates and paying for admission • Both micro-scale and macro-scale

  24. Disney Land http://www.google.com.tw/imgres?um=1&biw=1366&bih=620&hl=zh-TW&tbm=isch&tbnid=wEC_X_EKLqGhtM:&imgrefurl=http://dapsmagic.com/2012/01/15/auspicious-start-to-chinese-new-year-with-hong-kong-disneylands-year-of-the-dragon-celebration/&docid=W8sPygiL87auPM&imgurl=http://dapsmagic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/HongKongDisneylandMickeyMouseMinnieMouse.jpg&w=2700&h=1793&ei=T5KXUp2PKY3AkQWewoC4Ag&zoom=1&ved=1t:3588,r:94,s:0,i:369&iact=rc&page=5&tbnh=183&tbnw=246&start=74&ndsp=23&tx=98&ty=51

  25. Orange County http://img.realtor.com/california/orange.gif http://www.carolmendelmaps.com/mapla/soc.gif

  26. Orange County • One of the richest, best-educated, and most staunchly right wing and Republican counties in the US. • Post-Fordist industrial restructing, Exopolis, hyper-reality • 1994, bankruptcy

  27. Conclusion • We are all living in an increasingly postmordern world that is creating new contexts and new challenges that cannot be effectively responded to by clinging to older ways of thinking and acting politically. • Urgent for progressive thinkers and actors to resolve their internal divisions and act together to create an effective and emancipatory postmodern politics and a conceptual framework for an also explicitly postmodern critical urban studies that is appropriately and effectively attuned to the realities and hyper-realities of the contemporary moment.

  28. The End Thanks a lot!

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