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- catalog abstract "How can we think of Chicago without recalling the grittiness of The Asphalt Jungle's back alleys, or of London without the dank, foggy atmosphere so often evoked by Dickens? When de Certeau explores what it means to walk through a city, or Foucault dissects the elements of the modern attitude, what are they telling us about modernity itself? Through a discussion of these and many other questions about urban thought, Donald demonstrates how artists and social critics have seen the city as the locus not just of vanity, squalor, and injustice, but also of civilized society{u2019}s highest aspirations. Imagining the Modern City also looks at how artists have shaped cities through their creation of public spaces, sculpture, and architecture-art forms that help determine our ideas about our place in the urban environment. Planners and architects such as Otto Wagner, Le Corbusier, and Bernard Tschumi present us with real and possible cities, showing a way forward to alternative social futures, Donald asserts. The modern city provides both a culturally resonant imagined space and a physical place for the everyday life of its residents. Imagining the Modern City is a rich and dazzling exploration of the ways cities stir and shape our consciousness.".
- catalog contributor b11351835.
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description "Fog everywhere -- Metaphor and metropolis -- Light in dark spaces: cinema and city -- The citizen and the man about town -- Fat lady in the cab: imagining urban space -- Noisy neighbours: on urban ethics.".
- catalog description "How can we think of Chicago without recalling the grittiness of The Asphalt Jungle's back alleys, or of London without the dank, foggy atmosphere so often evoked by Dickens? When de Certeau explores what it means to walk through a city, or Foucault dissects the elements of the modern attitude, what are they telling us about modernity itself? Through a discussion of these and many other questions about urban thought, Donald demonstrates how artists and social critics have seen the city as the locus not just of vanity, squalor, and injustice, but also of civilized society{u2019}s highest aspirations.".
- catalog description "Imagining the Modern City also looks at how artists have shaped cities through their creation of public spaces, sculpture, and architecture-art forms that help determine our ideas about our place in the urban environment. Planners and architects such as Otto Wagner, Le Corbusier, and Bernard Tschumi present us with real and possible cities, showing a way forward to alternative social futures, Donald asserts.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [202]-210) and index.".
- catalog description "The modern city provides both a culturally resonant imagined space and a physical place for the everyday life of its residents. Imagining the Modern City is a rich and dazzling exploration of the ways cities stir and shape our consciousness.".
- catalog extent "xii1, 216 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0816635544 (HC)".
- catalog identifier "0816635552 (PB)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,".
- catalog subject "307.76 21".
- catalog subject "Cities and towns.".
- catalog subject "HT153 .D66 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Fog everywhere -- Metaphor and metropolis -- Light in dark spaces: cinema and city -- The citizen and the man about town -- Fat lady in the cab: imagining urban space -- Noisy neighbours: on urban ethics.".
- catalog title "Imagining the modern city / James Donald.".
- catalog type "text".