In the wake of centuries of Euroamerican literature, fundamentally rooted in Western-centered visions of Polynesia, potent alternative perspectives have now become visible in the emerging literary practices of Tahitian and other Polynesian authors over the last decades. This the…
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Leading Cities is a global review of the state of city leadership and urban governance today. Drawing on research into 202 cities in 100 countries, it offers an evidence-based and practical assessment of how cities are led, what challenges their leaders face, and the ways in whi…
Urban Religion in Late Antiquity
by Raja, Rubina, Asuman, Lätzer-Lasar, Clifford Ando, Dirk, Steuernagel, Emiliano, Rubens Urciuoli, Hartmut Leppin, Heidi, Wendt, Jorg Rupke, Lara, Weiss, Michael Blömer, Michele Renee, Salzman, Paroma, Chatterjee, Rubina, Raja, Teresa, Morgan
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Urban Religion is an emerging research field cutting across various social science disciplines, all of them dealing with "lived religion" in contemporary and (mainly) global cities. It describes the reciprocal formation and mutual influence of religion and urbanity in both their…
This is a lucid study of Walter Benjamin's lifelong fascination with the city and forms of metropolitan experience, highlighting the relevance of Benjamin's work to our contemporary understanding of modernity.
A study of Benjamin's lifelong fascination with the city and forms of metropolitan experience. Benjamin's critical account of the modern urban environment is traced through a number of key texts. This book highlights their relevance for our contemporary understanding of modernit…
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Europe's modernizing metropolises offered a sensory experience unlike anything that had come before. Cities became laboratories bubbling with aesthetic experimentation in old and new media, and from this milieu emerged metrop…
"Teaford surveys metropolitan areas from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt and the way in which postwar social, racial, and cultural shifts contributed to the decline of the central city as a hub of work, shopping, transportation, and entertainment."--Jacket.
"Teaford surveys metropolitan areas from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt and the way in which postwar social, racial, and cultural shifts contributed to the decline of the central city as a hub of work, shopping, transportation, and entertainment."--Jacket
