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Cityscapes of modernity : critical explorations / David Frisby.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press in association with Blackwell, 2001Description: xi, 375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0745609678
  • 9780745609676
  • 0745626254
  • 9780745626253
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.76 21
LOC classification:
  • HT119 .F75 2001
Contents:
1. The City Observed: The Flaneur in Social Theory -- 2. The City Detected: Representations and Realities of Detection -- 3. The City Interpreted: Georg Simmel's Metropolis -- 4. The City Compared: Vienna is not Berlin -- 5. The City Designed: Otto Wagner and Vienna -- 6. The City Dissolved: Social Theory, the Metropolis and Expressionism -- 7. The City Rationalized: Martin Wagner's New Berlin.
Review: "Cityscapes of Modernity will be a valuable text for students of sociology, social theory, urban theory, cultural studies and architectural history, as well as all those interested in the urban culture of modernity."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-368) and index.

1. The City Observed: The Flaneur in Social Theory -- 2. The City Detected: Representations and Realities of Detection -- 3. The City Interpreted: Georg Simmel's Metropolis -- 4. The City Compared: Vienna is not Berlin -- 5. The City Designed: Otto Wagner and Vienna -- 6. The City Dissolved: Social Theory, the Metropolis and Expressionism -- 7. The City Rationalized: Martin Wagner's New Berlin.

"Cityscapes of Modernity will be a valuable text for students of sociology, social theory, urban theory, cultural studies and architectural history, as well as all those interested in the urban culture of modernity."--BOOK JACKET.

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