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Performance and the City 2009 Edition
Contributor(s): Solga, Kim (Editor), Orr, S. (Editor), Loparo, Kenneth A. (Editor)
ISBN: 023020497X     ISBN-13: 9780230204973
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
OUR PRICE:   $52.24  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 2009
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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.
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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
 
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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.