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Imagining the City, v. 2 - Politics of Urban Space (Paperback)
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Imagining the City, v. 2 - Politics of Urban Space (Paperback)
Series: Cultural History & Literary Imagination, 8
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The urban spaces we inhabit today have been moulded by a
combination of historical forces -- by social and economic
processes, by the specific designs of urban planners, and by the
regulatory and ritual practices of earlier times. As arenas of
cultural activity they are also imbued with legends, symbolic
associations, and historical memories. This second volume of papers
arising from the conference 'Imagining the City', held in Cambridge
in 2004, examines the physical organization and the imaginative
perception of cities from both a historical and a contemporary
perspective, and over a geographical range that reaches from
Ukraine to Mexico. It includes discussions of the ways in which
cities have been envisaged in late antiquity, in the Middle Ages,
and in early modern times, as sites of religious, cultural and
political rituals; of the uses to which urban spaces have been put
by industrial societies and by the political cultures of the
twentieth century; and of the implications for the populations of
particular cities of the roles these have played in establishing
the historical identity of particular communities (whether
national, political or religious) and in the delineation of
boundaries between cultures.
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