Urban Culture

Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-415-30482-5
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 1352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1380 g

Reihe: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies

This collection is an interdisciplinary study focusing on the various cultural aspects of city life. The works included are drawn from a broad range of canonical and secondary sources and emphasise the 'new', covering modernist and postmodernist perspectives of urban culture. The collection is arranged thematically highlighting the variety of interests that coexist (and conflict) within the city. Issues such as gender, class, race, age and disability are covered along with urban experiences such as walking, politics & protest, governance, inclusion and exclusion. 'Urban pathologies', including gangsters, mugging and drug-dealing are also explored. Selections cover cities from around the globe, including London, Berlin, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Bombay and Tokyo.
Titles also available in this series include, Performance (March 2003, 4 volumes, £450) and Gothic (May 2004, 4 volumes, £475). Forthcoming titles in the series include, Narrative Theory (July 2004, 4 volumes, £475) and Folklore (2005, 4 volumes, c.£475).

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jenks, Chris

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationsmanagement, Public Relations
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Interkulturelle Kommunikation & Interaktion
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Public Relations
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikation & Medien in der Politik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Verbale & Nonverbale Kommunikationsprozesse
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Massenmedien & Massenkommunikation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME I

Acknowledgements

Chronological Table of Reprinted Articles and Chapters

General Introduction

PART 1 The Urban Question

1 The city: suggestions for the investigation of human behaviour in the urban environment

2 Time and space in the consumption of place

3 Social theory, capitalism and the urban question

4 Politics and space/time

5 The nature of the city

6 Community studies 1

7 Extracts from The Country and the City

8 The audience: a gathering of strangers

9 Extracts from Writings on Cities

10 The myth of urban culture

PART 2 Urban Modernity

11 Paris, capital of the nineteenth century =

12 Mythic history: fetish

13 Modernité

14 The experience of the city

15 The metropolis and mental life

16 A modern tour in Brazil

17 The bohemian stage

VOLUME II

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PART 3 Walking the City

18 The invisible flâneuse: women and the literature of modernity

19 Benjamin’s flâneur and the problem of realism

20 Watching your step: the history and practice of the flâneur

21 Walking in the city

22 The invisible flâneur

23 Urban spectatorship

24 The flâneur, the sandwichman and the whore

PART 4 Street Lives

25 The city as theatre: London in the 1820s

26 Scavengers and Cleaners

27 Extracts from Some types of character and society

28 Rodinsky’s place

29 The return to brick

30 The emporium of styles

31 Two beginnings

32 London luminaries and Cockney visionaries

VOLUME III

Acknowlegements

PART 5 Inclusion and exclusion

33 Signs taken for wonders: questions of ambivalence and authority under a tree outside Delhi, May 1817

34 Home sweet home? Street children’s sites of belonging

35 Extract from Two sides of anti-racism

36 The stranger

37 Extract from The Condition of the Working Class in England

38 The organization of territory

39 Whose culture? Whose city?

40 Inside out: racism, class and masculinity in the ‘inner city’ and the English suburbs

PART 6 Urban Processes

41 Robert Moses: the expressway world

42 Ritual pleasures of a seaside resort: liminality, carnivalesque, and dirty weekends

43 The city: the sewer, the gaze and the contaminating touch

44 Extracts from Situationist International Anthology

45 Urban cultures: spatial tactics

46 Urban landscape and popular culture

VOLUME IV

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PART 7 Urban Pathology

47 The Kray fascination

48 Extract from The gang and the community

49 The traditional ‘way of life’

50 The image and the reality

51 Inside the Jago

52 The haunts of the East End anarchist: Evening Standard 2nd October 1894

53 American gothic

54 The history of East London: a stroll down Felony Lane

55 Jack the Ripper

PART 8 Postmodern Urbanism

56 Some reflections on postmodernism and architecture

57 A response to Kenneth Frampton

58 Postmodern Bombay: fractured discourses

59 Taking Los Angeles apart: towards a postmodern geography

60 Beyond the postmodern city: rethinking ethnography for transnational times

61 The postmodern debate over urban form

62 Hiding in the light: youth surveillance and display

Index