Modernity, Post-modernity and Urban Culture

Abstract

The critique of the idea of a generic urban culture is often seen as exhausting all interest in urban culture. But this does not follow. In most forms of cultural analysis it is the diversity of possible meanings in any given cultural form that inspires inquiry. We do not stop interpreting novels if we conclude that they have different meanings! In a like manner, a framework is required to show how and why cities develop particular meanings, and how these are constructed, interpreted and sustained.