postmodernism
*Bit of an overloaded and slippery term.
The cultural logic of late capitalism?
A common conception of it seems to be that its about irony and a lack of sincerity.
rejection of the "universal validity" of binary oppositions, stable identity, hierarchy, and categorization.
Jane Jacobs' 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities was a sustained critique of urban planning as it had developed within Modernism and marked a transition from modernity to postmodernity in thinking about urban planning
1 Elsewhere in the garden
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