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The city is the most distinctive product of modernity, but it is also its most unruly. How do we approach a culture that is both physical and imaginary, that has moulded concrete and asphalt as well as movies and novels? Cityscapes provides an innovative approach to the modern city. By arguing that the most distinctive aspect of urban life is the varied, and often conflicting, rhythms of the city, this book sets out to find ways of registering the dynamic complexity of the city. Using a range of cultural forms Cityscapes spans the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, finding vivid examples of urban movements in Edgar Allan Poe's London, in Parisian departments stores, in colonial and anti-colonial Algiers, in the North American cities of recent detective fiction, and in the virtual city of The Matrix.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Cityscapes
• Author: Ben Highmore
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9780333929346
• ISBN: 0333929349
• ID: 04458866
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 384 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. April 2005

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