The City and Its Fragments
Author | : Preeti Chopra |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Preeti Chopra |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 2003 |
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Author | : Colin McFarlane |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2021-10-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0520382234 |
Pursuing fragments -- Pulling together, falling apart -- Knowing fragments -- Writing in fragments -- Political framings -- Walking cities -- In completion.
Author | : Yair Wallach |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2020-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1503611140 |
In the mid-nineteenth century, Jerusalem was rich with urban texts inscribed in marble, gold, and cloth, investing holy sites with divine meaning. Ottoman modernization and British colonial rule transformed the city; new texts became a key means to organize society and subjectivity. Stone inscriptions, pilgrims' graffiti, and sacred banners gave way to street markers, shop signs, identity papers, and visiting cards that each sought to define and categorize urban space and people. A City in Fragments tells the modern history of a city overwhelmed by its religious and symbolic significance. Yair Wallach walked the streets of Jerusalem to consider the graffiti, logos, inscriptions, official signs, and ephemera that transformed the city over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As these urban texts became a tool in the service of capitalism, nationalism, and colonialism, the affinities of Arabic and Hebrew were forgotten and these sister-languages found themselves locked in a bitter war. Looking at the writing of—and literally on—Jerusalem, Wallach offers a creative and expansive history of the city, a fresh take on modern urban texts, and a new reading of the Israel/Palestine conflict through its material culture.
Author | : Colin McFarlane |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2021-10-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0520382250 |
Cities are becoming increasingly fragmented materially, socially, and spatially. From broken toilets and everyday things, to art and forms of writing, fragments are signatures of urban worlds and provocations for change. In Fragments of the City, Colin McFarlane examines such fragments, what they are and how they come to matter in the experience, politics, and expression of cities. How does the city appear when we look at it through its fragments? For those living on the economic margins, the city is often experienced as a set of fragments. Much of what low-income residents deal with on a daily basis is fragments of stuff, made and remade with and through urban density, social infrastructure, and political practice. In this book, McFarlane explores infrastructure in Mumbai, Kampala, and Cape Town; artistic montages in Los Angeles and Dakar; refugee struggles in Berlin; and the repurposing of fragments in Hong Kong and New York. Fragments surface as material things, as forms of knowledge, as writing strategies. They are used in efforts to politicize the city and in urban writing to capture life and change in the world's major cities. Fragments of the City surveys the role of fragments in how urban worlds are understood, revealed, written, and changed.
Author | : Stephen Barber |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780948462665 |
Compares the social life and urban landscape of Berlin with those of other cities in Europe.
Author | : Tim Etchells |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780415173827 |
An exploration of what lies at the heart of contemporary theatre. Written by the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, it investigates the process of devising performance, theatre's interdisciplinary role, and the city's influence.
Author | : Kevin R. McNamara |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2014-10-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107028035 |
This Companion offers readers an accessible survey of the historical and symbolic relationships between literature and the city.
Author | : Kevin Lynch |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1964-06-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780262620017 |
The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.
Author | : Elizabeth A. Johnson |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2005-10-05 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0231502060 |
This new collection focuses on the impact of sprawl on biodiversity and the measures that can be taken to alleviate it. Leading biological and social scientists, conservationists, and land-use professionals examine how sprawl affects species and alters natural communities, ecosystems, and natural processes. The contributors integrate biodiversity issues, concerns, and needs into the growing number of anti-sprawl initiatives, including the "smart growth" and "new urbanist" movements.
Author | : Hebrews |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1879 |
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ISBN | : |