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The imaginative structure of the city [[electronic resource] /] / Alan Blum



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Autore: Blum Alan <1935-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The imaginative structure of the city [[electronic resource] /] / Alan Blum Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2003
Descrizione fisica: x, 330 p. ; ; 24 cm
Disciplina: 307.76
Soggetto topico: Sociology, Urban
Cities and towns
Sociologie urbaine
Villes
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-325) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The City Is Nothing But a Sign! -- The Common Situation -- Time, Space -- Cosmopolitanism -- Nighttime -- Scenes -- Materialism -- Impermanence -- Excitement -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Blum's distinctive form of theoretical inquiry pushes the reader to move beyond conventional ways of thinking about familiar urban issues in answering such fundamental questions as, How does a city exist? How do its inhabitants define their relationship to it? Who is entitled to speak for it? What is its symbolic nature? In what way does the city function as a focus of attempts to resolve social problems such as alienation, participation, and community? In what ways do night and nighttime affect our relationship to it? How is it possible to speak of a city as both exciting and alienating?
Titolo autorizzato: The imaginative structure of the city  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-86113-1
9786612861130
0-7735-7103-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910783799303321
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