Overview

Urban conditions are crucial to our experience of modernity, and, as reflected by art, literature and popular culture, have influenced contemporary ideas of what urban life is about. The Urban Lifeworld contributes to our understanding of the cultural role of cities by offering new insight into the analysis of urban experience. Two exceptional cities, New York and Copenhagen, are the focus of this exploration of cultural representations of urban life, which investigates the contrasts between perceptions and formation of the urban lifeworld. Integrating sociological, aesthetic and anthropological approaches to urban questions, this collection of essays presents a new vision of the cityscape which will enrich both academic debate and public life. Peder Boas Jensen, Peter Marcuse, Jens Kvorning, Helle Bogelund-Hansen, Birgitte Darger, Hans Ovesen, Joan Ockman, Gwendolyn Wright, Grahame Shane, Andrea Kahn, Henrik Reeh, Robert Snyder, Martin Zerl

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Author:   Peter Madsen ,  Richard Plunz
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.740kg
ISBN:  

9780415231770

ISBN 10:   0415231779
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   15 November 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction. PART I. Formation. 1. City: Culture: Nature. 2. Framing the Urban Development. 3. The Layered City. 4. Copenhagen. 5. Spotting Modern Copenhagen. 6. Midtown Manhattan at Midcentury. PART II. Perception. 7. Permeable Boundaries. 8. The Machine in the City. 9. Imaging New York. 10. Four Ways of Overlooking Copenhagen in Steen Eiler Rasmussen. PART III. Representations. 11. The Ashcan Artists. 12. Imagined. 13. Urban Life as Entertainment. 14. The Double Erasure of Times Square. 15. The Musical (Theater) as Equipment for Urban Living. 16. Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger at Times Square.

Reviews

'Articles are interesting and well conceived' - Architectural Review 'Articles are interesting and well conceived.' - Architectural Review '... 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

If one or another contribution stands out, it is to the credit of the editors that unlike so many compendia, articles are generally interesting and well conceived. <br>-Edward Robbins, Architectural Review <br>

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Richard Plunz, Peter Madsen

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