The city cultures reader

by Borden, Iain Hall, Tim Miles, Malcolm

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"'City Cultures Reader' is an outstanding collection of 60 texts, focussing on the cultural aspects, frameworks and perceptions of cities. Organised into twelve sections this text draws on material from cultural studies, architectural criticism and theory, cultural and human geography, urban design and critical theory. This exciting collection of readings draws out the comparisons and contrasts of the city by the juxtaposition of texts in each section. The excellent line up of contributors disc…

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Full title :The city cultures reader / edited by Malcolm Miles and Tim Hall ; with Iain Borden.

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Publication Date:2004.
Edition:2nd ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2004.

The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 508 pages ; : 25 cm

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ISBN:0415302447, 9780415302449, 0415302455, 9780415302456
oclc:ocm51966239
LC Classification:HT151
Dewey Decimal:307.76

1. What is a city? 'The metropolis and mental life' / Georg Simmel -- 'The growth of the city: an introduction to a research project' / Ernest W. Burgess -- 'What is a city?' / Lewis Mumford -- 'The hotel lobby' / Siegfried Kracauer -- 'World cities' / Elizabeth Wilson -- Plate section: The waterfront of Barcelona -- 2. What is culture? 'Metropolitan perceptions and the emergence of modernism' / Raymond Williams -- 'The affirmative character of culture' / Herbert Marcuse -- 'The art museum as ritual' / Carol Duncan -- 'Separation perfected' / Guy Debord -- 'Globalised culture: the triumph of the west?' / John Tomlinson -- 3. Symbolic economies. 'The production of belief: contribution to an economy of symbolic goods' / Pierre Bourdieu -- 'Opening up public art's spaces: art, regeneration and audience' / Tim Hall -- 'Fragments of a metropolitan viewpoint' / Martha Rosler -- 'The world in a shopping mall' / Margaret Crawford -- 'Justice, politics, and the creation of urban space' / Susan Fainstein -- Plate section: Capital arcade by John Goto -- 4. The culture industry. 'The culture industry reconsidered' / Theodor W. Adorno -- 'Reinterpreting local culture' / John Urry -- 'Barcelona…