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Real Cities - Modernity, Space and the Phantasmagorias of City Life (Paperback, New)
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Real Cities - Modernity, Space and the Phantasmagorias of City Life (Paperback, New)
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'...this is a book with an interesting thesis, and a welcome
contribution to the literature. Pile has opened up a productive
theoretical and empirical space for further study and exploration'
- RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group What is real about city
life? Real Cities shows why it is necessary to take seriously the
more imaginary, fantastic and emotional aspects of city life.
Drawing inspiration from the work of Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud
and Georg Simmel, Pile explores the dream-like and ghost-like
experiences of the city. Such experiences are, he argues, best
described as phantasmagorias. The phantasmagorias of city life,
though commonplace, are far from self-evident and little
understood. This book is a path-breaking exploration of urban
phantasmagorias, grounded empirically in a series of unusual and
exciting case studies. In this study, four substantial
phantasmagorias are identified: dreams, magic, vampires and ghosts.
The investigation of each phantasmagoria is developed using a wide
variety of clear examples. Thus, voodoo in New York and New Orleans
shows how ideas about magic are forged within cities. Meanwhile
vampires reveal how specific fears about sex and death are
expressed within, and circulate between, cities such as London and
Singapore. Taken together, such examples build a unique picture of
the diverse roles of the imaginary, fantastic and the emotional in
modern city life. What is "real" about the city has radical
consequences for how we think about improving city life, for all
too often these are over-looked in utopian schemes for the city.
Real Cities forcefully argues that an appreciation of urban
phantasmagorias must be central to what is considered real about
city life.
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