Captured by the City: Perspectives in Urban Culture Studies

Captured by the City: Perspectives in Urban Culture Studies
ISBN-10
1443854638
ISBN-13
9781443854634
Category
History
Pages
280
Language
English
Published
2013-12-05
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Author
Blagovesta Momchedjikova

Description

Captured by the City: Perspectives in Urban Culture Studies is a collection of eighteen essays on urban places, people, and phenomena. In it, cities in North America, Europe, and Asia offer themselves as dynamic encounters to those who study them and to those who live in them on a daily basis. Different disciplines-Sociology, Anthropology, Performance Studies, Architectural History, Linguistics, Media Studies, Documentary Poetics, to name just a few-intersect here to help shape a unique field of inquiry-that of Urban Culture Studies. This multi-perspectival approach grants us a more wholesome understanding of how we inscribe cities and how cities inscribe us in return: as we plan, inhabit, remember them-in reality or in dreams.

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