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Cultures of the city : Mediating identities in urban Latin/o America
Abstract from the publisher : Cultures of the City explores the cultural mediation of relationships between people and urban spaces in Latin/o America and how these mediations shape the identities of cities and their residents. Addressing a broad…
Parcours urbains
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Fascinante et effrayante, anonyme mais source de promiscuité, la ville constitue l'une des sources majeures d'inspiration d'une production littéraire et artistique marquée par la…
Urban realism and the cosmopolitan imagination in the nineteenth century
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This book tells a story about the transformation of mid-Victorian urban writing in response both to London's growing size and diversity, and Britain's shifting global fortunes. Tanya Agathocleous departs from customary…
Imagining the urban : Sanskrit and the city in early India
Abstract from the publisher : In Imagining the Urban, Shonaleeka Kaul turns to Sanskrit literature to discover the characteristics—both physical and social—of ancient Indian cities. Kaul examines nearly a thousand years of Sanskrit…
Le goût des villes imaginaires
Présentation par l'éditeur : Dans le vaste atlas des villes imaginaires, où commence le rêve, où s'arrête la réalité ? Plus l'on tente d'en fixer la frontière, plus la démarcation…
Italo Calvino's architecture of lightness : The utopian imagination in an age of urban crisis
Abstract from the publisher : This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and literary philosophy in the 1960s. Drawing on his letters, essays, critical reviews, and fiction, as well…
São Paulo: Perspectives on the City and Cultural Production
Abstract from the publisher : David Foster brings an intense curiosity and lifelong familiarity to this unique examination of the cultural tapestry of São Paulo, the largest city in South America and the second largest in Latin America. …
Urban space in contemporary Egyptian literature : Portraits of Cairo
Abstract from the publisher : Part ode, part academic treatise, this book traces the transformation of Cairo’s historic downtown from its spectacular beginning as a French inspired Belle Époque marvel to a site of contest and, more…
The postcolonial city and its subjects : London, Nairobi, Bombay
Abstract from the publisher : This book considers twentieth and twenty-first century literary and cultural formations of the postcolonial city and the constitution of new subjects within it. Varma offers a reading of both historical and…
Havana beyond the ruins : Cultural mappings after 1989
Abstract from the publisher : In Havana beyond the Ruins, prominent architects, scholars, and writers based in and outside of Cuba analyze how Havana has been portrayed in literature, music, and the visual arts since Soviet subsidies of Cuba…
Psycho-géographie : poétique de l'exploration urbaine
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Depuis le flâneur des villes jusqu'à l'explorateur de salon, de la dérive au détournement, la psychogéographie nous procure de nouvelles manières…
Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish urban experience: Reading the mobile city
Abstract from the publisher: An important contribution to the still evolving field of 'urban cultural studies,' Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience is the first book to thoroughly apply the French urban philosopher's thoughts on cities…
Paris au pied de la lettre
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A chaque carrefour, chaque détour de ruelle, chaque ombre portée d’un lampadaire, Paris respire du souffle de ses grands écrivains. Flaubert, Lautréamont, Perec, Fargue,…
The new Asian city: Three-dimensional fictions of space and urban form
Abstract from the publisher: Under Jini Kim Watson’s scrutiny, the Asian Tiger metropolises of Seoul, Taipei, and Singapore reveal a surprising residue of the colonial environment. Drawing on a wide array of literary, filmic, and political…
Joyce, Benjamin and magical urbanism. European Joyce Studies 21
Abstract from the publisher: Joyce, Benjamin and Magical Urbanism offers for the first time a sustained exploration of parallels between the fiction of James Joyce and the cultural criticism of Walter Benjamin. Benjamin is perhaps modernism’s…
City at the center of the world: Space, history, and modernity in Quito
Abstract from the publisher: In the seventeenth century, local Jesuits and Franciscans imagined Quito, the Andean capital of Ecuador, as the “new Rome.” It was the site of miracles and home of saintly inhabitants, the origin of crusades…
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…
Digital Detroit: Rhetoric and space in the age of the network
Abstract from the publisher: Since the 1967 riots that ripped apart the city, Detroit has traditionally been viewed either as a place in ruins or a metropolis on the verge of rejuvenation. In Digital Detroit: Rhetoric and Space in the Age of the…
San Francisco, à l'ouest d'Eden
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San Francisco sous toutes ses coutures : art, architecture, photographie, film, roman, édition, économie, géographie, histoire, depuis la fondation de Yerba Buena, au XVIIIe…