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Writing the City - Eden, Babylon and the New Jerusalem (Paperback)
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Writing the City - Eden, Babylon and the New Jerusalem (Paperback)
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`The expression of human experience it embodies ... includes all
personal history'. Saul Bellow's view of the city is far from that
of classic geographical descriptions which look at growth or
decline, demographic patterns, traffic flows and economic
potential: these empirically conceived models of urban geography
fail to accommodate the crucial human aspect of city life. Located
at the interface of geography and literature, Writing the City
visualizes the city through the hopes, aspirations, disappointments
and pains of international novelists and creative writers. From
Manchester, Montreal and Sydney to Osaka, Varanasi amd Odessa,
cities become more than their built environment, more than a set of
class or economic relationships: they are also an experience to be
lived, suffered and undergone. Thus cities are seen in terms of the
innocence of an Eden now lost, a threat of sinful Babylon and the
promise of a New Jerusalem.
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