Visions of the Modern City: Essays in History, Art, and Literature

by Leonard Wallock and William F. Sharpe

The relentless pace of urbanization since the industrial revolution has inspired a continuing effort to view, read, and name the modern city. "We are now at a point of transition to a new kind of city", write William Sharpe and Leonard Wallock, "and thus we are experiencing the same crisis of language felt by observers of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century cities." "Visions of the Modern City" explores the ways in which artists and writers have...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801835399
• ISBN13: 9780801835391
• Release Date: September 1987
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher