City A-Z : Urban Fragments

ISBN-13: 9780415207287 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 352 str.

Steve Pile; Nigel Thrift

Opis

A compendium of specially commissioned pieces of text and illustrations, with contributions from many of the leading international names in urban culture, geography and sociology. It introduces students to a novel way of thinking about and understanding cities and urban life. Short entries, arranged alphabetically, capture moments of the city: these pieces evoke the city by drawing on many different kinds of evidence: from poetry to prose, from cartoons to paintings and a photo-essay, from angry rhetorical writings to eulogies, and from rigorous noisy analysis to quiet stories of city life. Detailed introductions by the editors outline the conceptual history of the book and the theoretical approaches to the city that inform the thinking behind the book, as well as how to use it most effectively. The book conveys a sense of the city in the way that it looks, as well as through different kinds of writing.

Spis treści

Notes on Contributors; Preface; Notes on Cover Artwork;

O autorze

Steve Pile is Senior Lecturer in social sciences at the Open University. Nigel Thrift is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Bristol.