Author: Alan Blum
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773525399
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Table of contents
Imaginative Structure of the City
Author: Alan Blum
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773525399
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Table of contents
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773525399
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Table of contents
Imaginative Structure of the City
Author: Alan Blum
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773571035
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Blum's distinctive form of theoretical inquiry pushes the reader to move beyond conventional ways of thinking about familiar urban issues in answering such fundamental questions as, How does a city exist? How do its inhabitants define their relationship to it? Who is entitled to speak for it? What is its symbolic nature? In what way does the city function as a focus of attempts to resolve social problems such as alienation, participation, and community? In what ways do night and nighttime affect our relationship to it? How is it possible to speak of a city as both exciting and alienating?
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773571035
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Blum's distinctive form of theoretical inquiry pushes the reader to move beyond conventional ways of thinking about familiar urban issues in answering such fundamental questions as, How does a city exist? How do its inhabitants define their relationship to it? Who is entitled to speak for it? What is its symbolic nature? In what way does the city function as a focus of attempts to resolve social problems such as alienation, participation, and community? In what ways do night and nighttime affect our relationship to it? How is it possible to speak of a city as both exciting and alienating?
Public Speaking in the City
Author: J. Stewart
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230243622
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Providing a compelling analysis of debates in and about the modern city, this book draws upon architecture, history, literary studies, new media and sociology to explore the multiple connections between location, speech and the emerging modern metropolis. It concludes by reflecting on public speaking in the construction of the virtual city.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230243622
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
Providing a compelling analysis of debates in and about the modern city, this book draws upon architecture, history, literary studies, new media and sociology to explore the multiple connections between location, speech and the emerging modern metropolis. It concludes by reflecting on public speaking in the construction of the virtual city.
The Country and the City Revisited
Author: Gerald M. MacLean
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521592017
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A revisionist interdisciplinary study of the transformation of England into an imperial power between 1550 and 1850.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521592017
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A revisionist interdisciplinary study of the transformation of England into an imperial power between 1550 and 1850.
A Smarter Toronto
Author: Bob Hanke
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031415469
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031415469
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Translating Montreal
Author: Sherry Simon
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773577025
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The divided Montreal of the 1960s is very different from today's cosmopolitan, hybrid city. Taking the perspective of a walker moving through a fluid landscape of neighbourhoods and eras, Sherry Simon experiences Montreal as a voyage across languages. Sketching out literary passages from the then of the colonial city to the now of the cosmopolitan Montreal, she traces a history of crossings and intersections around the familiar sites and symbols of the city - the mythical boulevard Saint-Laurent, Mile End, the Jacques-Cartier Bridge, Mont-Royal.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773577025
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The divided Montreal of the 1960s is very different from today's cosmopolitan, hybrid city. Taking the perspective of a walker moving through a fluid landscape of neighbourhoods and eras, Sherry Simon experiences Montreal as a voyage across languages. Sketching out literary passages from the then of the colonial city to the now of the cosmopolitan Montreal, she traces a history of crossings and intersections around the familiar sites and symbols of the city - the mythical boulevard Saint-Laurent, Mile End, the Jacques-Cartier Bridge, Mont-Royal.
Circulation and the City
Author: Alexandra Boutros
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773581014
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
A series of rich case studies examine a range of topics, including neighbourhood gentrification, subway busking, yard sales, electronic waste, and language, refining the touchstone principle of circulation for the study of urban culture, both materially and theoretically. Contributors employ a variety of disciplinary approaches to create a richly varied picture of the multiple trajectories and effects of movement in the city. An engaging work that considers city planning, urban culture, and social behaviour, Circulation and the City adds a new dimension that revitalizes the ways we have commonly looked at - and thought about - the city.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773581014
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
A series of rich case studies examine a range of topics, including neighbourhood gentrification, subway busking, yard sales, electronic waste, and language, refining the touchstone principle of circulation for the study of urban culture, both materially and theoretically. Contributors employ a variety of disciplinary approaches to create a richly varied picture of the multiple trajectories and effects of movement in the city. An engaging work that considers city planning, urban culture, and social behaviour, Circulation and the City adds a new dimension that revitalizes the ways we have commonly looked at - and thought about - the city.
Urban Enigmas
Author: Johanne Sloan
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773577076
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The practice of comparison is implicit in every act of imagining, representing, and studying urban experience. Urban Enigmas contributes to recent interdisciplinary interest in cities by introducing comparison as a key methodology for urban cultural analysis.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773577076
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The practice of comparison is implicit in every act of imagining, representing, and studying urban experience. Urban Enigmas contributes to recent interdisciplinary interest in cities by introducing comparison as a key methodology for urban cultural analysis.
Literature and the Peripheral City
Author: Jason Finch
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137492880
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Cities have always been defined by their centrality. But literature demonstrates that their diverse peripheries define them, too: from suburbs to slums, rubbish dumps to nightclubs and entire failed cities. The contributors to this collection explore literary urban peripheries through readings of literature from four continents and numerous cities.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137492880
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Cities have always been defined by their centrality. But literature demonstrates that their diverse peripheries define them, too: from suburbs to slums, rubbish dumps to nightclubs and entire failed cities. The contributors to this collection explore literary urban peripheries through readings of literature from four continents and numerous cities.
Advanced Introduction to the Creative City
Author: Charles Landry
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1788973488
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Written by the leading authority Charles Landry, inventor of the concept of the creative city, this timely book offers an insightful and engaging introduction to the field. Exploring the development of the concept, it discusses the characteristics of cities, the qualities of creativity, the creative and regeneration repertoires and the gentrification dilemma. Other key topics of this definitive work include ambition and creativity, cities and psychology, digitization and the creative bureaucracy.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1788973488
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Written by the leading authority Charles Landry, inventor of the concept of the creative city, this timely book offers an insightful and engaging introduction to the field. Exploring the development of the concept, it discusses the characteristics of cities, the qualities of creativity, the creative and regeneration repertoires and the gentrification dilemma. Other key topics of this definitive work include ambition and creativity, cities and psychology, digitization and the creative bureaucracy.