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Writing the modern city: Literature, architecture, modernity
Abstract from the publisher: Literary texts and buildings have always represented space, narrated cultural and political values, and functioned as sites of personal and collective identity. In the twentieth century, new forms of narrative have…
Writing cities 1
From the Introduction by Suzanne Hall, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitía and Cecilia Dinardi :
The writing which this volume brings together is as multifaceted as are its objects of investigation. Ranging from theoretical or design-based…
Worlding cities : Asian experiments and the art of being global
Abstract from the publisher : Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of urbanization. It includes important contributions from a respected group…
Vienna 1900: Art, life and culture
Abstract from the publisher: At the turn of the 20th century, Vienna was one of the most exciting cities on earth - the central gathering spot of the European avant-garde in art, architecture, literature, music, journalism, philosophy, psychiatry,…
Urban tourism and urban change : Cities in a global economy
Abstract from the publisher : Urban Tourism and Urban Change: Cities in a Global Economy provides both a sociological / cultural analysis of change that has taken place in many of the world's cities. This focused treatment of urban tourism examines…
Urban pollution : Cultural meanings, social practices
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Re-examining Mary Douglas’ work on pollution and concepts of purity, this volume explores modern expressions of these themes in urban areas, examining the intersections of material and cultural pollution. It…
Urban plots, organizing cities
Abstract from the publisher : By focusing on the interplay between material, social and narrative dimensions of the city, this book examines urban complexity, namely the dynamic and entangled nature of urban issues, and puts forward a notion of the…
Urban modernity: Cultural innovation in the second Industrial Revolution
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At the close of the nineteenth century, industrialization and urbanization marked the end of the traditional understanding of society as rooted in agriculture. Urban Modernity examines the construction of an…
Urban maps : Instruments of narrative and interpretation in the city
Abstract from the publisher : This book concerns the city and the 'devices' that define the urban environment by their presence, representation or interpretation. The texts offer an interdisciplinary discourse and critique of the complex systems,…
Urban Dynamics
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Urban Dynamics est un projet vidéo international qui tente d'appréhender les dynamiques urbaines par le biais d'un collage d'environnements urbains du monde entier en assemblant des extraits de vidéos faits…
Urban cultures in (post)colonial central Europe
Abstract from the publisher : Berlin, Budapest, Prague, and Warsaw are cities indelibly marked by more than forty years of Soviet influence. Urban Cultures in (Post) Colonial Central Europe explores the ways in which these major urban centers have…
Urban constellations
Abstract from the publisher: Cities are an unprecedented focus of attention: over half the world now lives in them, culture and politics are shaped by them, and they are also focal points for new relationships between nature, technology and the…
Uprooted : How Breslau became Wroclaw during the century of expulsions
Abstract from the publisher : With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. Its more than six hundred thousand…
Under metropolis: Exploring the cultural history of Buenos Aires underground railways (c. 1886-1945)
Tourists, signs and the city: The semiotics of culture in an urban landscape
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Drawing upon the literature of landscape geography, tourism studies, cultural studies, visual studies and philosophy, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the interaction between urban…
