Cities are places of mixing and meeting - places where different worlds encounter one another on the streets. Yet cities are all too often seen as unruly places in need of government and control. This work asks questions about the ways in which cities mix different worlds. Taking a fresh approach to issues of order and disorder and extending spatial understanding of cities, the book develops insights into city life, using a variety of examples drawn from around the world. It challenges the common-place assumption that cities are threatened by disorder from below and that they might be ruled...
Cities are places of mixing and meeting - places where different worlds encounter one another on the streets. Yet cities are all too often seen as unr...
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 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...
A compendium of specially commissioned pieces of text and illustrations, with contributions from many of the leading international names in urban cult...
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....
A compendium of specially commissioned pieces of text and illustrations, with contributions from many of the leading international names in urban cult...
The Handbook of Cultural Geography presents a 'state of the art' assessment of the key questions informing cultural geography in the 21st century. Emphasising the intellectual diversity of the discipline, the Handbook presents a comprehensive statement of the relationship between the cultural imagination and the geographical imagination while also looking at resonances between cultural geography and other disciplines. The work is cross-referenced throughout and presents a completely integrated overview of cultural geography. This will be an essential reference for any inquiry into how culture...
The Handbook of Cultural Geography presents a 'state of the art' assessment of the key questions informing cultural geography in the 21st century. Emp...
What is real about city life? Real Cities shows why it is necessary to take seriously the more imaginary, fantastic and emotional aspects of city life.
Drawing inspiration from the work of Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud and Georg Simmel, Pile explores the dream-like and ghost-like experiences of the city. Such experiences are, he argues, best described as phantasmagorias. The phantasmagorias of city life, though commonplace, are far from self-evident and little understood. This book is a path-breaking exploration of urban phantasmagorias, grounded empirically in a...
What is real about city life? Real Cities shows why it is necessary to take seriously the more imaginary, fantastic and emotional aspects of ci...
What is real about city life? Real Cities shows why it is necessary to take seriously the more imaginary, fantastic and emotional aspects of city life.
Drawing inspiration from the work of Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud and Georg Simmel, Pile explores the dream-like and ghost-like experiences of the city. Such experiences are, he argues, best described as phantasmagorias. The phantasmagorias of city life, though commonplace, are far from self-evident and little understood. This book is a path-breaking exploration of urban phantasmagorias, grounded empirically in a...
What is real about city life? Real Cities shows why it is necessary to take seriously the more imaginary, fantastic and emotional aspects of ci...
In the last two decades, new political subjects have been created through the actions of the new social movements; often by asserting the unfixed and overdetermined' character of identity. Further, in attempting to avoid essentialism, people have frequently looked to their territorial roots to establish their constituency. A cultural politics of resistance, as exemplified by Black politics, feminism, and gay liberation, has developed struggles to turn sites of oppression and discrimintion into spaces of resistance. This book collects together perspectives which challenge received notions...
In the last two decades, new political subjects have been created through the actions of the new social movements; often by asserting the unfixed and ...
