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Book Title
Visions of the Modern City
Publication Name
Visions of the Modern City : Essays in History, Art, and Literature
Title
Visions of the Modern City
Subtitle
Essays in History, Art, and Literature
Author
Leonard Wallock, William Chapman Sharpe
Format
Trade Paperback
ISBN-10
0801835402
EAN
9780801835407
ISBN
9780801835407
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Genre
Architecture & Antiques
Release Date
27/10/1987
Release Year
1987
Language
English
Country/Region of Manufacture
US
Item Height
0.7in
Item Length
8.6in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Publication Year
1987
Type
Textbook
Item Width
5.6in
Number of Pages
280 Pages

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The relentless pace of urbanization since the industrial revolution has inspired a continuing effort to view, read, and name the modern city. "We are now at a point of transition to a new kind of city", write William Sharpe and Leonard Wallock, "and thus we are experiencing the same crisis of language felt by observers of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century cities." Visions of the Modern City explores the ways in which artists and writers have struggled to define the city during the past two centuries and opens a new perspective on the urban vision of our time. In their introduction, the editors outline three phases in the evolution of the modern city--each having its own distinctive morphology and metaphor-- and argue that a new vocabulary is needed to describe the sprawling "urban field" of today. Eric Lampard draws a detailed demographic and geographic picture of urbanization since the late eighteenth century, culminating with the "decentered" city of the 1980s. Other contributors examine the representation of cities from the London and Paris of 1850 to the New York, Los Angeles, and Tokyo of the present. Deborah Nord and Philip Collins follow Henry Mayhew and Charles Dickens, respectively, through the urban underworld of Victorian London. Theodore Reff traces the double life of Paris expressed in the work of Manet, while Michele Hannoosh shows bow Baudelaire influenced the Impressionists by transferring the aesthetic implications of the term nature to urban experience. Thomas Bender and William Taylor focus on tensions between the horizontal and the vertical in the architectural development of New York City, and Paul Anderer investigates the private, domestic spaces that represent Tokyo in postwar Japanese fiction. Steven Marcus analyzes the breakdown of the city as signifying system in the novels of Saul Bellow and Thomas Pynchon, writers who question whether the indecipherable contemporary city has any meaning left at all.

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Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801835402
ISBN-13
9780801835407
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1138944

Product Key Features

Author
Leonard Wallock, William Chapman Sharpe
Publication Name
Visions of the Modern City : Essays in History, Art, and Literature
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
1987
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
280 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.6in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
13 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Nx650.C66v57 1987
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
"Contributors illustrate how modern cities have been read and conceptualized with vocabularies ranging from the biological to the physical sciences."-- Journal of Modern Literature, ""Contributors illustrate how modern cities have been read and conceptualized with vocabularies ranging from the biological to the physical sciences."", Contributors illustrate how modern cities have been read and conceptualized with vocabularies ranging from the biological to the physical sciences.
Copyright Date
1987
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Landscape, Sociology / Urban
Lccn
87-002764
Dewey Decimal
700
Dewey Edition
19
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Architecture, Social Science

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