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Public speaking in the city : debating and shaping the urban experience / Janet Stewart.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009Description: xi, 211 pages : illustrations, plans ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0230218091
  • 9780230218093
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 307.76 22
LOC classification:
  • HT255 .S84 2009
Contents:
Introduction : public speaking in the modern city -- Look who's talking -- Architects and the urban public -- Appearing in public -- Locating the voices -- Epilogue : public speaking and the city of the future.
Summary: "Dazzled, perhaps, by the seductive charms of new communication technology and equating modernity exclusively with the new, most accounts of the modern city around 1900 remain silent on the role that public speaking played in shaping and framing the urban experience. Janet Stewart sets out to break this scholarly silence, using primary material, and case studies of acclaimed speakers such as Karl Kraus, Adolf Loos and Georg Simmel, to reveal connections between location, speech and the metropolis in two archetypal modern cities: Berlin and Vienna. Public Speaking in the City provides a compelling analysis of debates in and about the modern city, asking: Who was speaking and what were they talking about?; What form did public speaking take and where did it take place? This imaginative study, drawing upon architecture, history, literary studies, new media and sociology, concludes by reflecting on public speaking in the construction of the virtual city."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : public speaking in the modern city -- Look who's talking -- Architects and the urban public -- Appearing in public -- Locating the voices -- Epilogue : public speaking and the city of the future.

"Dazzled, perhaps, by the seductive charms of new communication technology and equating modernity exclusively with the new, most accounts of the modern city around 1900 remain silent on the role that public speaking played in shaping and framing the urban experience. Janet Stewart sets out to break this scholarly silence, using primary material, and case studies of acclaimed speakers such as Karl Kraus, Adolf Loos and Georg Simmel, to reveal connections between location, speech and the metropolis in two archetypal modern cities: Berlin and Vienna. Public Speaking in the City provides a compelling analysis of debates in and about the modern city, asking: Who was speaking and what were they talking about?; What form did public speaking take and where did it take place? This imaginative study, drawing upon architecture, history, literary studies, new media and sociology, concludes by reflecting on public speaking in the construction of the virtual city."--Publisher's website.

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