Writing the City: Eden, Babylon and the New Jerusalem

by Peter Preston and Preston Peter

The expression of human experience it embodies ... includes all personal history'.
Saul Bellow's view of the city is far from that of classic geographical descriptions which look at growth or decline, demographic patterns, traffic flows and economic potential: these empirically conceived models of urban geography fail to accommodate the crucial human aspect of city life.
Located at the interface of geography and literature, Writing the City...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415106672
• ISBN13: 9780415106672
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 2.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"