Cityscapes of modernity : critical explorations / David Frisby.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press in association with Blackwell, 2001Description: xi, 375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0745609678
- 9780745609676
- 0745626254
- 9780745626253
- 307.76 21
- HT119 .F75 2001
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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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