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The Sphinx in the City

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This study use fiction, essays, film and art, as well as history and sociology, to look at some of the world's greatest cities - London, Paris, Moscow, New York, Chicago, Lusaka and Sao Paulo - and presents a critique of utopian planning, anti-urbanism, postmodernism and traditional architecture. For women, the city offers freedom, including sexual freedom, but also new dangers. Planners and reformers have repeatedly attempted to regulate women - and the working class and ethnic miniroties - by means of grandiose, utopian plans, nearly destroying the richness of urban culture. City centres have become uninhabited business districts, the countryside suburbanized. There is danger without pleasure, consumerism without choice, safety without stimulation. What is needed is a new understanding of city life and Wilson gives the reader an introduction to what this might be.

Author Biography:

Elizabeth Wilson is Professor of Social Studies at the Polytechnic of North London, and the author of a number of books, including Adorned in Dreams (California, 1988) and Hallucinations (Constable, 1989).
Release date Australia
March 10th, 1992
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
b&w photographs
Pages
191
Dimensions
152x229x16
ISBN-13
9780520078642
Product ID
2294096

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