TY - BOOK ID - 144909510 TI - Back to the future PY - 2015 SN - 1138964298 1315763842 1317652509 PB - London ; New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Modernism (Aesthetics) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:144909510 AB - Is modernity being replaced by an opposite culture of postmodernity, or is postmodernism simply an internal critique of modernist culture? This key question is central to this stimulating book which explores the transformations taking place in social life, cultural preferences, economic organization and political attitudes, particularly in the context of the contemporary city as a lived or written experience. This book contains accounts of the development of modern ways of life and their erosion in the 20th century. The author argues that a whole set of modern institutions, from the corporatio ER -