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Cityscapes of Modernity: Critical Explorations
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Polity Pr
Publication date January 3, 2002
Pages 375
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780745626253
ISBN-10 0745626254
Dimensions 1.25 by 6.25 by 9 in.
Weight 1.25 lbs.
Published in Great Britain
Original list price $39.95
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The modern metropolis has been one of the crucial sites for the exploration of modernity since at least the mid-nineteenth century. In this new volume, David Frisby provides an original and critical examination of the construction and experience of metropolitan modernity.


Drawing on a rich variety of sources, Frisby seeks to reveal some key features of metropolitan experience in modernity. Among the issues examined are Benjamin's account of the flaneur and its relevance for social investigation and urban detection; Simmel's influential essay on the metropolis; contrasting interpretations of fin-de-siecle Berlin and Vienna by Sombart; the work of Otto Wagner; and the response to the modern metropolis as highlighted in German Expressionism and Weimar Berlin.


Cityscapes of Modernity will be a valuable text for students of sociology, social theory, urban theory, cultural studies and architectural history, as well as all those interested in the urban culture of modernity.

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