Text And The City

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The City as Text

Author: James S. Duncan
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2004
Argues that landscapes are not only culturally produced, but they also influence governing ideas of political and religious life.
Text and the City

The first translation into English of essays on modern Japanese literature, culture, and urban ethnography written by the late Ai Maeda, arguably the most prominent 20th century Japanese literary and cultural critic.
Publics and the City

Publics and the City investigates struggles over the making of urban publics, considering how the production, management and regulation of 'public spaces' has emerged as a problem for both urban politics and urban theory. Advances a new framework for considering the diverse spatialities of publicness in relation to the city Argues that a city's contribution to the making of publics goes beyond the provision of places for public gathering Examines a series of detailed case studies Looks at the relationship between urbanism, public spheres, and democracy