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Cityscapes of Modernity: Critical Explorations (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,807
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Cityscapes of Modernity: Critical Explorations (Hardcover): D. Frisby

Cityscapes of Modernity: Critical Explorations (Hardcover)

D. Frisby

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The modern metropolis has been one of the crucial sites for the exploration of modernity since at least the mid-nineteenth century. In this new volume, David Frisby provides an original and critical examination of the construction and experience of metropolitan modernity.

Drawing on a rich variety of sources, Frisby seeks to reveal some key features of metropolitan experience in modernity. Among the issues examined are Benjamin's account of the flaneur and its relevance for social investigation and urban detection; Simmel's influential essay on the metropolis; contrasting interpretations of fin-de-siecle Berlin and Vienna by Sombart; the work of Otto Wagner; and the response to the modern metropolis as highlighted in German Expressionism and Weimar Berlin.

Cityscapes of Modernity will be a valuable text for students of sociology, social theory, urban theory, cultural studies and architectural history, as well as all those interested in the urban culture of modernity.

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Imprint: Polity Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: November 2001
First published: December 2001
Authors: D. Frisby
Dimensions: 234 x 135 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-0967-6
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Theory of architecture
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities
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LSN: 0-7456-0967-8
Barcode: 9780745609676

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