Cities and urban cultures /

What is distinctive about urban life? What key trends have shaped the contemporary city? How have the city and urban cultures been explained by sociology and cultural studies? This is the first book to explore cities and urban life from the perspectives of both sociology and cultural theory. Through...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stevenson, Deborah
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2003.
Series:Issues in cultural and media studies.
Subjects:
Cities and towns.
Sociology, Urban.
Urban anthropology.
City and town life.
Postmodernism > Social aspects.
Villes.
Sociologie urbaine.
Anthropologie urbaine.
Vie urbaine.
Postmodernisme > Aspect social.
cities.
urban sociology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Cities and towns
City and town life
Postmodernism > Social aspects
Sociology, Urban
Urban anthropology
Steden.
Stadscultuur.
Stadssociologie.
Postmodernisme.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 'Last Trams I' and 'II' / Kenneth Slessor
  • 1. City Cultures
  • 2. Landscapes of Shadow and Smog: The Emergence of the Industrial City
  • 3. Cities of Difference: Inequality, Marginalization and Fear
  • 4. Meaning and Memory: Reading the Urban Text
  • 5. Designing the Urban: From the City Beautiful to the 'End' of Modernism
  • 6. City as Spectacle: Culture and the Reimaging of Cities
  • 7. Imagining the City: Movies, Maps and Cyberspace
  • 8. Conclusion: Beyond Urbanism?

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