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OverviewThis study use fiction, essays, film and art, as well as history and sociology, to look at some of the world's greatest cities - London, Paris, Moscow, New York, Chicago, Lusaka and Sao Paulo - and presents a critique of utopian planning, anti-urbanism, postmodernism and traditional architecture. For women, the city offers freedom, including sexual freedom, but also new dangers. Planners and reformers have repeatedly attempted to regulate women - and the working class and ethnic miniroties - by means of grandiose, utopian plans, nearly destroying the richness of urban culture. City centres have become uninhabited business districts, the countryside suburbanized. There is danger without pleasure, consumerism without choice, safety without stimulation. What is needed is a new understanding of city life and Wilson gives the reader an introduction to what this might be. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Elizabeth WilsonPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Weight: 0.481kg ISBN: 9780520078505ISBN 10: 0520078500 Pages: 191 Publication Date: 10 March 1992 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsShe argues persuasively that the revival of cities depends on our looking at them in a fresh and sympathetic way. . . . Along the way, Ms. Wilson also offers a number of shrewd insights into what makes cities magical and fun, despite their vulgarity, rabble, vice and empty corporate plazas. --Karal Ann Marling, New York Times Book Review Author InformationElizabeth Wilson is Professor of Social Studies at the Polytechnic of North London, and the author of a number of books, including Adorned in Dreams (California, 1988) and Hallucinations (Constable, 1989). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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