| Imagining the City, Volume 1: The Art of Urban Living Contributor(s): Emden, Christian (Editor), Keen, Catherine (Editor), Midgley, David Robin (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3039105329 ISBN-13: 9783039105328 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis OUR PRICE: $116.28 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - Art - History |
| Dewey: 307.76 |
| LCCN: 2006047289 |
| Series: Cultural History and Literary Imagination, |
| Physical Information: 348 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Italy - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Urban living presents both challenges and opportunities for individuals and societies in their attempts to maintain and determine their cultural identity. Mobility, fragility, and inventive self-fashioning are common features of life in Europe's big cities throughout the modern period. This volume is based on papers given at the conference 'Imagining the City' held in Cambridge in 2004. Together they examine the city as imagined space and as a matrix for imagined worlds, using French, German, English, Italian, Russian and North American examples. They analyse modes of literary representation of the city and literary readings of cultural politics; the impact of the imagination of artists and architects on the fashioning of urban landscapes; the effect of new technologies and media (flight, photography, film, and the internet) on urban perception; and the impact of artistic interventions and activist movements on the construction and use of public spaces in the world of today. A second volume will examine the cultural and political moulding of urban space in a similar comparative perspective. |