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Edward Soja’s “Six Discourses on the Post-Metropolis” perfectly captures the characteristics of post-modern urbanism and post-modern cities. Elaborate.

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Edward Soja, in Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions (2000), organised the argument of the Los Angeles School into six discourses on the city that emerged from the crisis of the Fordist metropolis after 1970. Each names a restructuring — of production, of global reach, of urban form, of the social mosaic, of governance…

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  • Post-modern Urbanism: What Changed
  • Soja’s Six Discourses
  • Flexcity — the post-Fordist industrial metropolis
  • Cosmopolis — the globalisation of cityspace
  • Exopolis — the city turned inside out
  • Fractal City — metropolarities and the restructured social mosaic
  • …and 7 more sections, with a conclusion
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