Postmodern architecture of spectacle displaced austere modernism for urban redevelopment.

Evidence

An architecture of spectacle, with its sense of surface glitter and transitory participatory pleasure, of display and ephemerality, of jouissance, became essential to the success of a project of this sort (plates 1 . — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 563

Categorization

• DEFINE: Architecture of spectacle defined by surface glitter, transitory participatory pleasure, display, ephemerality, jouissance — a key description of the postmodern built form.
• XREF: Jouissance links directly to Jameson and the postmodern sublime; this is the economic-mechanism counterpart to Jameson’s aesthetic-periodization claim. — connects to: Postmodern architecture debates are aesthetic mystification masking socioeconomic causes — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 583; Architecture’s postmodern turn began with celebrating Las Vegas’s commercial signs — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 58; Modernist architecture aggressively repudiated the old city while postmodern buildings complacently coexist with it — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 139 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Modernist architecture aggressively repudiated the old city while postmodern buildings complacently coexist with it #corroborates (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 139