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Urban Verbs: Arts and Discourses of American Cities
Kevin R. McNamara
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Description for Urban Verbs: Arts and Discourses of American Cities
Hardback. Speaking to the ongoing debate over the development of urban space and culture, this book demonstrates the centrality of the physical and social being of cities to American literature and other arts in the twentieth century. Num Pages: 324 pages, 16 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBD; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. .
Speaking to the ongoing debate over the development of urban space and culture, this book demonstrates the centrality of the physical and social being of cities to American literature and other arts in the twentieth century. The author's reading of aesthetic texts alongside urban planning, economics, sociology, law, and historiography-discourses he treats as form-producing arts in their own right-shows as misleading the common dichotomy of models that focus on the structure of urban space and institutions, and those that describe cities as fluid constellations of social practices.The ideal of mobility was invoked early in this century by the urban pluralists ... Read more
Speaking to the ongoing debate over the development of urban space and culture, this book demonstrates the centrality of the physical and social being of cities to American literature and other arts in the twentieth century. The author's reading of aesthetic texts alongside urban planning, economics, sociology, law, and historiography-discourses he treats as form-producing arts in their own right-shows as misleading the common dichotomy of models that focus on the structure of urban space and institutions, and those that describe cities as fluid constellations of social practices.The ideal of mobility was invoked early in this century by the urban pluralists ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
324
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804726450
SKU
V9780804726450
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About Kevin R. McNamara
Kevin R. McNamara has taught at Palacky University (Czech Republic), and the University of California, Irvine and San Diego.
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