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Cityscapes - Cultural Readings in the Material and Symbolic City (Hardcover, New)
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Cityscapes - Cultural Readings in the Material and Symbolic City (Hardcover, New)
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The city is the most distinctive product of modernity, but it is
also its most unruly. How do we approach a culture that is both
physical and imaginary, that has moulded concrete and asphalt as
well as movies and novels? Cityscapes provides an innovative
approach to the modern city. By arguing that the most distinctive
aspect of urban life is the varied, and often conflicting, rhythms
of the city, this book sets out to find ways of registering the
dynamic complexity of the city. Using a range of cultural forms
Cityscapes spans the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, finding
vivid examples of urban movements in Edgar Allan Poe's London, in
Parisian departments stores, in colonial and anti-colonial Algiers,
in the North American cities of recent detective fiction, and in
the virtual city of The Matrix.
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