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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…
Taipei: City of displacements
Abstract from the publisher: This cultural study of public space examines the cityscape of Taipei, Taiwan, in rich descriptive prose. Contemplating a series of seemingly banal subjects - maps, public art, parks - Joseph Allen peels back layers of…
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…
Cities in translation: Intersections of language and memory
Abstract from the publisher: All cities are multilingual, but there are some where language relations have a special importance. These are cities where more than one historically rooted language community lays claim to the territory of the city.…
The city of the senses: Urban culture and urban space
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Offering an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to the city which opens up new ways of understanding urban culture and urban space, the author approaches the city as essentially a "material" place where…
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…
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…
Sanctuaries of the city: Lessons from Tokyo
Abstract from the publisher: This book proposes that we can learn from Tokyo about the instrinsic importance of in-between realms to an international culture: the sanctuaries. It argues that certain urban societies are more robust than others…
Cities into battlefields: Metropolitan scenarios, experiences and commemorations of total war
Abstract from the publisher: Cities have always had a key role in warfare, as strategic centres which periodically suffered the horrors of siege and sack. With industrialisation, however, they were drawn ever closer to the front line and to direct…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Rome: A cultural, visual, and personal history
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Rome - as a city, as an empire, as an enduring idea - is in many ways the origin of everything Robert Hughes has spent his life thinking and writing about with such dazzling irreverence and exacting rigour. In this…
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. …
