Visions of the Modern City
Subtitle: Essays in History, Art, and Literature
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: September 1, 1987
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780801835391
Subjects: Cultural studies; The Arts; Urban communities; Politics/International Relations; Art And Society; Urban Sociology; Architecture; General; Labor; Landscape; Architecture / Landscape; Arts; Cities and towns; Cities and towns in art; History
First sentence: When studying the modern city, we confront problems of language as well as of methodology, for language inevitably conditions our responses to the city.