Addressing the post-urban: Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York

The Hieroglyphics of Space: Reading and Experiencing the Modern Metropolis

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 185-200

  Chaplin, Sarah ^a   Holding, Eric ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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1. This chapter was first presented as a lecture, 'Addressing the Post-Urban', at the morphe conference, Deakin University, Australia, in July 1997
2. Anthony King (ed.), Re-presenting Cities, London, 1996
3. See H.V. Savitch, Post-industrial Cities: Politics and Planning in New York, Paris and London, Princeton, NJ, 1988; Margaret Rose, The Post-Modern and the Post-Industrial, Cambridge, 1991
4. Margaret Rose, The Post-Modern and the Post-Industrial, Cambridge, 1991
5. See David Harvey, The Condition of Post-Modernity, Oxford: Blackwell, 1989; Nan Ellin, Postmodern Urbanism, Oxford, 1996, Sophie Watson and Katherine Gibson (eds), Postmodern Cities and Spaces, Oxford, 1995
6. Nan Ellin, Postmodern Urbanism, Oxford, 1996
7. Sophie Watson and Katherine Gibson (eds), Postmodern Cities and Spaces, Oxford, 1995
8. Creating what Giuliana Bruno has called 'CinéCities', David B. Clarke, The Cinematic City, London, 1997, p. 46
9. Elizabeth Wilson, 'The Rhetoric of Urban Space', New Left Review 209 (1995): 146-60
10. Anthony Vidler, 'Post-urbanism', in The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992, pp. 177-86
11. Paul Virilio, 'The Overexposed City', The Lost Dimension, trans. Daniel Moshenberg, Paris, 1991
12. Wilson, 'The Rhetoric of Urban Space', p. 159
13. Vidler, 'Post-urbanism', p. 186
14. Vidler, 'Post-urbanism', p. 186
15. Virilio, 'The Overexposed City', p. 12
16. Postcards of the 'Mall of America' in West Bloomington, the biggest mall in the USA, show downtown Minneapolis somewhere far-off in the background as comparatively insignificant
17. Virilio, 'The Overexposed City', p. 18
18. Jean Baudrillard, Simulations, trans. P. Foss, P. Patton and P. Beitchman, New York: Semiotext(e), 1983
19. Umberto Eco, 'Travels in Hyperreality', Faith in Fakes, London, 1986
20. Fredric Jameson, 'Cognitive Mapping', in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, ed. C. Nelson and L. Grossberg, New York, 1988
21. Marc Augé, Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, London, 1995
22. Sharon Zukin, Landscapes of Power, Berkeley, CA, 1992
23. Fredric Jameson, 'Postmodernism and Consumer Society', in Postmodern Culture, ed. Hal Foster, London, 1985, pp. 111-25
24. Mike Davis, City of Quartz. Excavating the Future in Los Angeles, Pimlico: London, 1990, p. 81. In Britain there is concern that Disney will take over plans for the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, while in Times Square Disney has expressed an interest in becoming a key player in the redevelopment plans
25. Louis Marin, Utopics: Spatial Play, London, 1984
26. George Ritzer, The McDonaldization of Society, rev. edn, California, 1996
27. John Findlay, Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture after 1940, Berkeley, CA, 1992
28. Charles Rutheiser, Imagineering Atlanta, London, 1996
29. Mark Gottdiener, The Theming of America, Oxford, 1997
30. Norman Klein, 'Scripted Space: the Consumer-built City', in Consuming Architecture, Architectural Design, ed. Sarah Chaplin and Eric Holding, John Wiley and Sons, vol. 68, no. 1/2, Jan./Feb. 1998
31. Interestingly, Rem Koolhaas has now been asked to work on the master plan for Universal City, and is at the same time preparing plans for the city of Hanoi in Cambodia. In this scenario, the question of which is leading the way forward and what is the model for what inevitably arises. Koolhaas himself is beginning to talk of a 'new authenticity', especially with respect to Asia, an authenticity born of what he calls a 'Photoshop paradigm' of urbanism, which for him represents one of the new software tools responsible for facilitating the easy digital reconfiguring of the city's image and its new existence as a physical entity
32. P. Kotler and G. Armstrong, Marketing: An Introduction, 3rd edn, London, 1988
33. The London-based Space Syntax Laboratory was involved in proposals to control crowds flocking to Trafalgar Square for Millennium celebrations. Discussed in M. Christine Boyer, Cybercities, Cambridge, MA, 1996
34. Quoted by Diller and Scofidio, 'Soft Sell', City Speculations, ed. Patricia Phillips, Princeton, NJ, 1996, p. 29
35. Rem Koolhaas, lecture at the Royal Academy, London, June 1997
36. Deyan Sudjic, 'Variations on a Theme Park', The Guardian, 5 September 1996, p. 6
37. This event took place on December 31st 1996, Las Vegas. See Stephen Brown, Postmodern Marketing, London, 1995
38. Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction, London, 1984
39. Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle, London, 1987