TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stewart,Janet
TI  - Public speaking in the city: debating and shaping the urban experience 
SN  - 0230218091
AV  - HT255 .S84 2009
U1  - 307.76 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Basingstoke [England], New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Public speaking
KW  - Communication and culture
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -