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Author | : Stephen Barber |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2013-06-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1780232462 |
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This book explores the visual transformation of the contemporary European city, focusing on the most emblematic and visibly wounded of all European cities – Berlin. Taking as its subject the "intricately assembled, relentlessly disassembling metropolitan screen", it charts the virulent implosions of culture, the distortions and violence that give city-living its fractured and hallucinatory quality. Provocatively written as a series of inter-locking poetic fragments, the text evokes the formation of metropolitan "identity" as it ricochets between the physical surface of the city and the vulnerable but manipulating consciousness of city dwellers. Barber has discovered a powerful new vocabulary – a vocabulary charged with the visual and sonic impact of the cinema. Like the city, the text pulsates, creatively chaotic, raw and exhilarating.
Author | : Rosemary Wakeman |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2020-01-23 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 135001768X |
Download A Modern History of European Cities Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Rosemary Wakeman's original survey text comprehensively explores modern European urban history from 1815 to the present day. It provides a journey to cities and towns across the continent, in search of the patterns of development that have shaped the urban landscape as indelibly European. The focus is on the built environment, the social and cultural transformations that mark the patterns of continuity and change, and the transition to modern urban society. Including over 60 images that serve to illuminate the analysis, the book examines whether there is a European city, and if so, what are its characteristics? Wakeman offers an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates concepts from cultural and postcolonial studies, as well as urban geography, and provides full coverage of urban society not only in western Europe, but also in eastern and southern Europe, using various cities and city types to inform the discussion. The book provides detailed coverage of the often-neglected urbanization post-1945 which allows us to more clearly understand the modernizing arc Europe has followed over the last two centuries.
Author | : Glenn Clark |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2010-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0773590838 |
Download City Limits Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In essays that capture the multiple aspects of urban life, contributors examine European cities through the lenses of history, literature, art, architecture, and music. Covering topics such as governance, performance, high culture and subculture, tourism, and journalism, this volume provides new and invigorating ways to think about cities both past and present. An innovative and interdisciplinary work, City Limits crosses conventional critical boundaries to depict a vibrant and moving cityscape of historical urban experience.
Author | : Engin F. Isin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1135123756 |
Download Democracy, Citizenship and the Global City Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Democracy, Citizenship and the Global City focuses on the controversial, neglected theme of citizenship. It examines the changing role of citizens; their rights, obligations and responsibilities as members of nation-states and the issue of accountability in a global society. Using this interdisciplinary approach, the book offers an innovative collection of work from Robert A. Beauregard, Anna Bounds, Janine Brodie, Richard Dagger, Gerard Delanty, Judith A. Garber, Robert J. Holton, Warren Magnusson, Raymond Rocco, Nikolas Rose, Evelyn S. Ruppert, Saskia Sassen, Bryan S. Turner, John Urry, Gerda R. Wekerle and Nira Yuval-Davis.
Author | : Friedrich Lenger |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2012-08-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9004233385 |
Download European Cities in the Modern Era, 1850-1914 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 'European Cities in the Modern Era, 1850/80-1914', Friedrich Lenger offers an account of Europe's major cities in a period crucial for the development of much of their present shape and infrastructure.
Author | : Samuel Y. Liang |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2014-07-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317656113 |
Download Remaking China's Great Cities Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
China’s rapid urbanization has restructured the great socialist cities Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou into mega cities that embrace global capitalism. This book focuses on the urban transformations of these three cities: Beijing is the nation’s political and cultural capital; Shanghai is the economic and financial powerhouse; and Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong Province and the regional center of south China. All are historical cities with rich imperial, colonial, and regional heritages, and all have been drastically transformed in the last six decades. This book examines the cities’ continuous urban legacies since 1949 in relation to state governance, economic reforms, and cultural production. By adopting local historical perspectives, it offers more nuanced accounts of the current urban change than the modernization/globalization paradigm and conceptualizes the change in the context of the cities’ socialist, colonial, and imperial legacies. Specifically, Samuel Y. Liang offers an overview of the urban planning and territorial expansion of the great cities since 1949; explores the production and consumption of urban housing, its spatial forms, media representations, and socio-political implications; and examines the state-led redevelopment of old urban cores and residential neighborhoods, and the urban conservation movement. Remaking China’s Great Cities will be of great interest to students and scholars working across a range of fields including Chinese studies, Chinese culture and society, urban studies and architecture.
Author | : Joachim Schlör |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781861890153 |
Download Nights in the Big City Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This elegantly written book describes the changes in the perception and experience of the night in three great European cities: Paris, Berlin and London. The lighting up of the European city by gas and electricity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought about a new relationship with the night, in respect of both work and pleasure. Nights in the Big City explores this new awareness of the city in all its ramifications. Joachim Schlor has spent his days sifting through countless police and church archives, and first-hand accounts, and his nights exploring the highways and byways of these three great capitals. Illustrated with haunting and evocative photographs by, among others, Brandt and Kertesz, and filled with contemporary literary references, Nights in the Big City has already been acclaimed in the German press as a milestone in the cultural history of the city. " Schlor] is erudite, and his literary style is alluring." Architect's Journal"
Author | : Nicolas Whybrow |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2020-05-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1137120061 |
Download Performance and the Contemporary City Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Cities, with their rising populations and complex configurations, have become key symbols of a fast-changing modernity. This timely collection gathers together various urban writings from a range of relevant disciplines, including architecture, geography, sociology, visual art, ethnography and psychoanalysis. Its focus, however, is performance. Underscoring the importance of the field, it shows how performance functions as a dynamic, interdisciplinary mechanism which is central not only to understanding the multiplicity of urban living but also to the way the identities of cities are shaped. Gathering together key writings on the city and performance by authors ranging from Walter Benjamin to Tim Etchells to Carl Lavery, the reader can be navigated in any number of ways. Supported by extensive introductory material, it will be essential and evocative reading for anyone interested in making connections between performance and urban life.
Author | : Leonardo Benevolo |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1995-11-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780631198932 |
Download The European City Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is a history of the European city from the early Middle Ages to the present. Tracing the city from the survival of urban life after the collapse of the Roman Empire to the effects of modern industrialization and transportation, Professor Benevolo's book also provides a fascinating account of the relationship between urban life and cultural and intellectual life.
Author | : Robert E. Dickinson |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780415177115 |
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First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.