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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Madsen; Richard Plunz |
| ISBN: | 0415234034 9780415234030 0415231779 9780415231770 |
| OCLC Number: | 46501229 |
| Description: | viii, 390 p. ; ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | City:culture:nature : the New York wilderness and the urban sublime / Richard Plunz -- Framing the urban development : choices : policies, planners, market, participation / Peder Boas Jensen -- The layered city / Peter Marcuse -- Copenhagen : formation, change and urban life / Jens Kvorning -- Spotting modern Copenhagen / Helle Bøgelund-Hansen, Birgitte Darger, and Hans Ovesen -- Midtown Manhattan at midcentury : Lever House and the international style in the city / Joan Ockman -- Permeable boundaries : domesticity in post-war New York / Gwendolyn Wright -- The machine in the city : phenomenology and everyday life in New York / Grahame Shane -- Imaging New York : representations and perceptions of the city / Andrea Kahn -- Four ways of overlooking Copenhagen in Steen Eiler Rasmussen / Henrik Reeh -- The Ashcan artists : journalism, art and metropolitan life / Robert W. Snyder -- Imagined urbanity : novelistic representations of Copenhagen / Peter Madsen -- Urban life as entertainment : New York and Copenhagen in the mid-nineteenth century / Martin Zerlang -- The double erasure of Times Square / M. Christine Boyer -- The musical (theater) as equipment for urban living / Michael Eigtved --Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger at Times Square / Anne Ring Petersen. |
| Other Titles: | Urban life world |
| Responsibility: | edited by Peter Madsen and Richard Plunz. |
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Abstract:
This volume of scholarly essays, the results of detailed research, contributes to our understanding of the cultural role of cities by offering a new approach to the analysis of urban experience.
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'Articles are interesting and well conceived.' - Architectural Review<br><br>'... among the best anthologies within the area of urban studies. The editors have suceeded in producing a truly multidisciplinary book, which highlights different aspects of urbanization, urbanism and urbanity in the modern city.' - Katarina Nylund, Planning Theory and Practice Read more...
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