Imagining the City
Imagining the City Urban living presents both challenges and opportunities for individuals and societies in their attempts to maintain and determine their cultural identity. Together they examine the…
Specifikacia Imagining the City
Imagining the City
Urban living presents both challenges and opportunities for individuals and societies in their attempts to maintain and determine their cultural identity. Together they examine the city as imagined space and as a matrix for imagined worlds, using French, German, English, Italian, Russian and North American examples. Mobility, fragility, and inventive self-fashioning are common features of life in Europe's big cities throughout the modern period.This volume is based on papers given at the conference 'Imagining the City' held in Cambridge in 2004.
They analyse modes of literary representation of the city and literary readings of cultural politics; the impact of the imagination of artists and architects on the fashioning of urban landscapes; the effect of new technologies and media (flight, photography, film, and the internet) on urban perception; and the impact of artistic
Imagining the Balkans
Imagining the Holocaust
Imagining the Divine
Imagining the evident
Imagining the Byzantine Past
The City & The City
Imagining Asias
Imagining Society
Imagining Difference
Imagining Transgender
Imagining Imaging