Imagining the Modern City (Continuum Collection Series) - Softcover

Donald, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826479014 ISBN 13: 9780826479013

Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd., 2005

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"'The city tugs at the imagination and the imagination tugs the city. In an exemplary fashion, Donald shows the truth of this statement. An acute and often surprising book that shows real sympathy for the city, warts and all.' Nigel Thrift; 'A stimulating and engaging meditation on the city and the urban imaginary that explores both the pleasures and the challenges of modern living. Donald uses the culture of cities to open up important questions about modernity and, particularly, modern political culture.' Kevin Robins; 'To dare to rewrite the political map of the city as a poetic one, as Donald does, is to insist that this other, imaginative side of the metropolis is as important to how we live the city, walk its streets and dream our selves, as are the political expectancies we think it embodies.' Iain Chambers"

Reseña del editor:

Paris, Berlin, London, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Los Angelesthese define 'the city' in the world's consciousness. James Donald takes us on a psychic journey to the places that have inspired artists, writers, architects and film-makers for centuries. Artists and social critics - from Dickens to Baudelaire, Fritz Lang, Virginia Woolf, Wim Wenders, Ridley Scott to others - have seen the city as the locus not just of vanity, squalor and injustice, but also of civilised society's highest aspirations. Considering the cultural and political implications of the 'urban imaginary', Donald contends that the imagined city remains the best lens for a future of democratic community. Imagining the Modern City also looks at how artists have shaped cities through their creation of public spaces, sculpture and architecture - art forms that help determine our ideas about our place in the urban environment. Planners and architects such as Otto Wagner, Le Corbusier, and Bernard Tschumi present us with real and possible cities, showing a way forward to alternative social futures. Imagining the Modern City is a rich and dazzling exploration of the ways cities stir and shape our consciousness.

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• Verlag: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0826479014
• ISBN 13: 9780826479013
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240