Cityscapes: Cultural Readings in the Material and Symbolic City

by Ben Highmore

Book Overview

The city is the most distinctive product of modernity, but it is also its most unruly. How do we approach a culture that is both physical and imaginary, that has moulded concrete and asphalt as well as movies and novels? Cityscapes provides an innovative approach to the modern city. By arguing that the most distinctive aspect of urban life is the varied, and often conflicting, rhythms of the city, this book sets out to find ways of registering the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333929357
• ISBN13: 9780333929353
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.2"