Postmodern places ?
Is this study then about postmodern places? In architecture postmodern started by naming a reaction against the strictures of orthodox modernism, then it acquired more positive content as the assertion of locality and particular history, then it became attached to historicist styles of surface decoration for modern boxes.
Lately places have been described as postmodern if they make room for decentered fluid identities of variously liberated selves and bodies and encounters.
However, whether from older traditions or from resurgent modernists, there has come a reaction against such claims; the postmodern is seen as a nihilistic degeneration of identity and community.
I want to disagree with all these analyses. Universally radical or conservative claims are both falsely over-generalized. I want less radical but still emphatic assertions of a new condition, arguing that there is a new game in town; yet the older continues, but in a new context.