Captured by the city : perspectives in urban culture studies / / edited by Blagovesta M. Momchedjikova

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910816405503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Newcastle upon Tyne : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-4438-5463-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): MomchedjikovaBlagovesta M
• Disciplina: 306.091732
• Soggetti: Sociology, Urban
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: part I. City places : in memory, history, and real-time -- part II. City identities : in transit and situ -- part III. Performing the city : voices and practices.
• Sommario/riassunto: Captured by the City: New Perspectives in Urban Culture Studies is a collection of eighteen essays on urban places, people, and phenomena. In it, cities in North America, Europe, and Asia offer themselves as dynamic encounters to those who study them and to those who live in them on a daily basis. Different disciplines - sociology, anthropology, performance studies, architectural history, linguistics, media studies, and documentary poetics, to name just a few - intersect here to help shape a ...