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Urban Encounters
Helen Liggett
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Description for Urban Encounters
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages, 93 halftones. BIC Classification: JH; RGC; RP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 13. Weight in Grams: 387.
In words and photographs, reimagining the city as lived space
In contrast to Walter Benjamin, Henri Lefebvre, and other European thinkers engaged with the concept of the urban, American intellectuals tend to envision the modern city as a dystopia, their perception of urban life influenced by negative stereotypes and fictional depictions in popular culture. In Urban Encounters, Helen Liggett challenges this fatalism by approaching the city as a vibrant, lived space. Combining a sophisticated critique of the urban with striking, street-level images, Liggett reclaims the human experience of the city.
Liggett’s “encounters” with the urban are sequences of images and text that ... Read more Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816641277
SKU
V9780816641277
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99-50
About Helen Liggett
Helen Liggett is professor of urban studies at Cleveland State University. She is coeditor, with David C. Perry, of Spatial Practices: Critical Explorations in Social/Spatial Theory (1995), and her photographs have been exhibited at the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art.
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