Performance and the City 2009 Edition Contributor(s): Solga, Kim (Editor), Orr, S. (Editor), Loparo, Kenneth A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 023020497X ISBN-13: 9780230204973 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text.' What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor?" Performance and the City "queries the role theatre and performance play in urban policy, architecture, and civic history, while also exploring their important place in the memories created in the wake of urban trauma. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Theater - History & Criticism - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) |
Dewey: 792.01 |
Series: Performance Interventions |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.5" (1.00 lbs) 269 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Editing Award 2016 Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor? Performance and the City queries the role theatre and performance play in urban policy, architecture, and civic history, while also exploring their important place in the memories created in the wake of urban trauma. |