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City Life (Paperback)
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City Life (Paperback)
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"A brave foray into the interdisciplinary and a serious attempt to
cover city life in all its complexity... Franklin's optimism about
the city is refreshing. He revels in the growing human and cultural
diversity and the 're-emergence and spread of a more tolerant,
carnivalesque, culture-driven city life', and he celebrates the
city's ability to offer shelter to the unexpected and the fragile.
For Franklin, the city is a product of nature, with all its
vicissitudes." - Times Higher Education "Franklin writes with
barely restrained optimism as he emphasizes the excitement,
vitality and potential of cities. This advances the idea of city
lives as assemblages of 'human and non-human networks of texts,
software, culture, behaviour, architecture, trees and gardens'...
Franklin uses a wide range of sources in making his case.
Historical accounts, search engine statistics and social and
cultural theory are all smoothly integrated into the narrative." -
Sociology Cities are more important as cultural entities than their
mere function as dormitories and industrial sites. Yet, the
understanding of what makes a city 'alive' and appealing in
cultural terms is still hotly contested - why are some cities so
much more interesting, popular and successful than others? In this
engaging discussion of 'city life' Adrian Franklin takes the reader
on a tour of contemporary western cities exploring their historical
development and arguing that it is the transformative, ritual and
performative qualities of successful cities that makes a
difference. Here is a new urban culture characterized by ecological
frames of reference; tracking the making of contemporary city life
from traditional times, through early modern, machinic and
modernised stages of development. Adopting dynamic narrative
structures and stories to develop its critical position this book
creates a vibrant synthesis of city life from its key components of
leisure and tourism, recreation and play, arts and culture, nature
and environment, and architecture and public space. Emphasising the
importance of experience the book represents the fluid complexity
of the city as a living space, an environment and a posthumanist
space of transformation. It will be of interest to all those
engaging with the difficulties of urban life in sociology, human
geography, tourism and cultural studies.
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