Sphinx in the City
Sphinx in the City Elizabeth Wilson's elegant, provocative, and scholarly study uses fiction, essays, film, and art, as well as history and sociology, to look at some of the world's greatest cities -…
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Sphinx in the City
Elizabeth Wilson's elegant, provocative, and scholarly study uses 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 powerful critique of utopian planning, anti-urbanism, postmodernism, and traditional architecture. Planners and reformers have repeatedly attempted to regulate women - and the working class and ethnic minorities - by means of grandiose, utopian plans, nearly destroying the richness of urban culture. For women the city offers freedom, including sexual freedom, but also new dangers.
There is danger without pleasure, consumerism without choice, safety without stimulation. City centers have become uninhabited business districts, the countryside suburbanized. What is needed is a new understanding of city life and Wilson gives us an intriguing introduction to what this might be.
Sphinx in the City
Writing the Sphinx
In the City
In the City
In the City
Living in the City
Fire in the City
Riddles of the Sphinx
Country in the City
Pat in the City
Tricks in the City
Nana in the City
Forest in the City
BEES IN THE CITY