Becoming non- blasé: slowness via urbanisation

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2014

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Erdal, Berrak

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In accordance with the rise of industrialization and technology, the “urban form” reshapes itself as the production relations and the new modern life find a unique way of transformation simultaneously. One of the factors behind that new urbanism is the time-space compression that accelerates the experience of time and reduces the significance of distance. With the impact of speed, the society develops a reaction, which is no reaction at all, as Georg Simmel defines as blasé attitude. In this thesis, a non-blasé urbanism that is truly based on the notion of slowness will be investigated with the examples of utopian urbanisms in global context.

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Cities and towns., Urbanization., Lifestyles., City and town life., Social ecology., Sociology, Urban.

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http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12617085/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/23491

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis