Space and place have become central to analysis of culture and history in the humanities and social sciences. Making Place examines how people engage the material and social worlds of the urban environment via the rhythms of everyday life and how bodily responses are implicated …
Pathologies of Modern Space traces the rise of agoraphobia and ties its astonishing growth to the emergence of urban modernity. In contrast to traditional medical conceptions of the disorder, Kathryn Milun shows that this anxiety is closely related to the emergence of ""empty ur…
"Pathologies of Modern Space traces the rise of agoraphobia in modern life and ties its astonishing growth to the emergence of urban modernity. The fear of stepping into the anonymity of modern cities and the anxiety that modern urban settings generate is in fact a central featu…
Squares: urban spaces in Europe
Squares: urban spaces in Europe
by Wolfrum, Sophie, Janson, Alban, Brandis, Nikolai von
"This book contains a collection of European squares, depicted in maps and plans. It is an atlas, dealing with architecture - the architecture of the city."
"In Repressed Spaces Paul Carter tours the cultural history of agoraphobia, the fear of open space. There have been many attempts to explain and treat the condition: urban designers have linked it to bad city planning; psychoanalysts, calling it 'street panic', have blamed it on…