Cityscapes of Modernity
Subtitle: Critical Explorations
Publisher: Polity Press; Polity Press in association with Blackwell
Published: December 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780745609676
Subjects: Modernism; Theory of architecture; Urban communities; Sociology; City planning; Social Science; Sociology - General; Sociology - Urban; Social Science / Sociology / Urban; Cities and towns in literature; Architecture, Modern; Cities and towns; Civilization, Modern
First sentence: Any investigation of the flaneur in social theory must commence with the contribution of Walter Benjamin towards a history and analytic of this ambiguous urban figure, whose existence and significance was already announced a century earlier by Baudelaire and others.