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Allegheny County
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Cemetery Reform
Cemetery Regulations
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Church Building
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CIAM's Discussion
civic rituals
claes
county
Ellis Island
Ellis Island Immigration Station
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Jaqueline Tyrwhitt
Male Substance Users
Municipal Shelter
National Defense Reserve Fleet
Neighbourhood Unit Concept
oldenburg
Organic Neighbourhood Unit
Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention
Processional Route
Progressive Disease
regulations
row
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Royal Entry
Secular Funerals
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Skid Row
social geography
Socialist Urbanization
Spatial Temporal Field
spatial theory
urban planning methodologies
urban studies
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781409439592
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 12 Feb 2014
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Cityscapes in History: Creating the Urban Experience explores the ways in which scholars from a variety of disciplines - history, history of art, geography and architecture - think about and study the urban environment. The concept ’cityscapes’ refers to three different dynamics that shape the development of the urban environment: the interplay between conscious planning and organic development, the tension between social control and its unintended consequences and the relationship between projection and self-presentation, as articulated through civic ceremony and ritual. The book is structured around three sections, each covering a particular aspect of the urban experience. ’The City Planned’ looks at issues related to agency, self-perception, the transfer of knowledge and the construction of space. ’The City Lived’ explores the experience of urbanity and the construction of space as a means of social control. And finally, ’The City as a Stage’ examines the ways in which cultural practices and power-relations shape - and are in turn shaped by - the construction of space. Each section combines the work of scholars from different fields who examine these dynamics through both theoretical essays and empirical research, and provides a coherent framework in which to assess a wide range of chronological and geographical subjects. Taken together the essays in this volume provide a truly interdisciplinary investigation of the urban phenomenon. By making fascinating connections between such seemingly diverse topics as 15th century France and modern America, the collection raises valuable questions about scholarly approaches to urban studies.
Dr Katrina Gulliver is lecturer in history at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Dr Heléna Tóth is research fellow at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.
