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The Rule of Freedom - Liberalism and the Modern City (Paperback)
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The Rule of Freedom - Liberalism and the Modern City (Paperback)
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The liberal governance of the nineteenth-century state and city
depended on the rule of freedom. As a form of rule it relied on the
production of certain kinds of citizens and patterns of social
life, which in turn depended on transforming both the material form
of the city (its layout, architecture, infrastructure) and the ways
it was inhabited and imagined by its leaders, citizens and
custodians. Focusing mainly on London and Manchester, but with
reference also to Glasgow, Dublin, Paris, Vienna, colonial India,
and even contemporary Los Angeles, Patrick Joyce creatively and
originally develops Foucauldian approaches to historiography to
reflect on the nature of modern liberal society. His consideration
of such artifacts as maps and censuses, sewers and markets, public
libraries and parks, and of civic governments and city planning,
are intertwined with theoretical interpretations to examine both
the impersonal, often invisible forms of social direction and
control built into the infrastructure of modern life and the ways
in which these mechanisms both shape culture and social life and
engender popular resistance.
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