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Urban mindscapes of Europe /

Urban mindscapes are structures of thinking about a city, built on conceptualisations of the city's physical landscape as well as on its image as transported through cultural representation, memory and imagination. This book pursues three main strands of inquiry in its exploration of these ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Weiss-Sussex, Godela, Bianchini, Franco, 1959-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2006.
Colección:European studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 23.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : European urban mindscapes : concepts, cultural representations and policy applications / Franco Bianchini
  • The gestalt of the urban imaginary / Rolf Lindner
  • Researching the urban imaginary : resisting the erasure of places / Jude Bloomfield
  • "An avenue that looks like me" : re-presenting the modern cityscape / Betty Nigianni
  • Urban mindscapes reflected in shop windows / Giandomenico Amendola
  • Encountering the city : on "not taking yourself with you" / Nicolas Whybrow
  • Strange city : Belfast Gothic / Neal Alexander
  • "Seeing the future" : urban dystopia in Wells and Lang / Keith Williams
  • Strangers (to) themselves : cityscapes and mindscapes in 1980s European cinema / Barry Langford
  • Once in TV's royal city : television coverage of royal media events / Hugh O'Donnell
  • Cartoons and the comic exposure of the European city of culture / Matthew Reason
  • Drifting bridges : semantic changes of the bridge metaphor in twentieth-century Budapest / Levente Polyák
  • Reconstructing the ancient city : imagining the Athenian polis / Stuart Price
  • The myth of Berlin : the imagined and the staged city / Klaus Siebenhaar
  • Berlin literature and its use in the marketing of the "New Berlin" / Godela Weiss-Sussex
  • Sites and sights : the urban museum in a changing urban structure / Doris Teske
  • Identity by invocation or design? : how planning is conjuring up a new identity for Malmö / Lia Ghilardi
  • Confessions of a place marketer / Paul Brookes ; interviewed by Franco Bianchini.