Hieroglyphics of space
Subtitle: reading and experiencing the modern metropolis
By: edited by Neil Leach.
Contributors: Leach, Neil.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Sociology, Urban.; Cities and towns.
Description: "'Spatial images', wrote the German cultural theorist Siegfried Kracauer, 'are the dreams of society. Wherever the hieroglyphics of any spatial image are deciphered, there the basis of social reality presents itself.' But how exactly are these spatial images to be deciphered? This volume addresses his question with a series of insightful essays on some of the great metropolitan centres of the world. From political interpretations to gendered analyses, from methods of mapping to filmic representations, and from studies in consumption to economic surveys, the volume offers a range of strategies for reading and experience the modern metropolis."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The metropolis as text : Otto Wagner and Vienna's 'Second Renaissance' / David Frisby; title: Cognitive mapping : New York vs Philadelphia / Jonathan Hale; title: Benjamin's London, Baudrillard's Venice / Graeme Gilloch; title: Resurrecting an imperial past : strategies of self-representation and 'masquerade' in fascist Rome (1934-1938) / Anna Notaro; title: Airbrushed Moscow : the cathedral of Christ the Saviour / Natasha Chibireva; title: Erasing the traces : the 'denazification' of post-revolutionary Berlin and Bucharest / Neil Leach; title: Erasing the traces : the 'denazification' of post-apartheid Johannesburg and Pretoria / Neil Leach; title: The pursuit of pleasure : London rambling / Jane Rendell; title: Gay Paris : trace and ruin / Adrian Rifkin; title: 'Waiting, waiting' : the hotel lobby, in the modern city / Douglas Tallack.; title: Venice : masking the real / Barry Curtis and Claire Pajaczkowska; title: Benjamin's Moscow, Baudrillard's America / Graeme Gilloch; title: Addressing the post-urban : Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York / Sarah Chaplin and Eric Holding; title: 'The problem of London', or, how to explore the moods of the city / Steve Pile; title: Playtime : 'Tativille' and Paris / Iain Borden; title: Blade runner : 'Ridleyville' and Los Angeles / Peter Wollen; title: French bidonvilles around 1960's Paris : urbanism and individual initiatives / Mirielle Rosello; title: Pl(a)ys of marginality : transmigrants in Paris / Doina Petrescu; title: The capsular city / Lieven de Cauter; title: Media-polis/media-city / Constantin Petcou.