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Postmodern Urbanism Toronto as an Example Outline Clarification of Terms: Postmodernism, Postmodernity and Postmodern City Structure of the Article Toronto: from Modernization to Postmodernism Modernization and Anti-Modernism: Regent Park as an example Postmodern Urbanism: Renovation of Historical Building and the Retro Chic Urban Social Movements Social Geography of Toronto: the Issue of Gentrification Postmodernism, Postmodernity and Postmodern City Postmodernism (cultural dominant—resistant or complicit) Postmodern City Texts (representation/concept and lived experience) Postmodernity Postmodern City ≠ Postmodernism, Postmodernity and Postmodern City postmodernity (postmodern conditions 後現代性: 後工業資本主義、跨國企業) －overall commofication + multinational capitalism + electronic/tele-communication ; reinforced or critiqued by postmodernism. 後現代主義 (postmodernism)－Cultural Dominant in the Postmodern Age 文化表現（in music, architecture, pop culture, politics, critical theories, etc. ） 特色：無深度(depthless)、互文、諷擬、拼貼(intertextuality, parody pastiche 古都)、後設(metafictional; e.g. Mermaid)、模擬兩可(ambiguous)、質疑大敘述／真理(de-doxification)、折衷(eclecticism)、跨界(boundary-crossing)、多元(pluralistic), etc. What is Postmodernism? (1) Negative Positive Flattening of subjectivity; Pastiche Ambiguity Eclecticism Pluralism De-Centering Boundary-crossing Literature Film: Surfiction, metafiction pastiche Parody Ensemble film Sci-fi . . .,etc Historiographical metafiction metafilm Urban space Society as spectacle; Plural space; Multiple historical signs De-zoning or democratization of urban space; re-creation of historical spaces “Postmodern Urbanism and the Canadian Corporate City”: Structure Postmodern Urbanism—(defined p. 100) Anti-Modernist –according to social/urban critics –machine-modeled, not practical Modernism pro and con—rationalization and enlightenment as passé or an unfinished project A New Paradigm—polyphony Social Movements – Metropolitan restructuring (service-centred