Cities and fascination : beyond the surplus of meaning / edited by Heiko Schmid, Wolf-Dietrich Sahr and John Urry.

Title & Author:

Cities and fascination : beyond the surplus of meaning / edited by Heiko Schmid, Wolf-Dietrich Sahr and John Urry.

Publication:

Description:

xvii, 243 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Series:

Re-materialising cultural geography

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1.Cities and Fascination: Beyond the Surplus of Meaning / John Urry -- pt. I REVEALING FASCINATION: THEORETICAL HORIZONS -- 2.The Urban Question after Modernity / Michael Dear -- 3.The City is Back (in Our Minds) / Jacques Levy -- 4.Emotions in an Urban Environment: Embellishing the Cities from the Perspective of the Humanities / Jurgen Hasse -- 5.Aesthetics and Design: Perceptions in the Postmodern Periphery / Ludger Basten -- pt. II FOCUSING FASCINATION: CROSSING THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL PERPECTIVES -- 6.`The Most Dangerous Knack': Fetish and Fascination in the Built Environment / Neil Smith -- 7.The Urban Staging of Politics: Life Worlds, Aesthetics, and Planning-and an Example from Brazil / Wolf-Dietrich Sahr -- pt. III IMPLEMENTING FASCINATION: CASE STUDIES -- 8.From Dreamland to Wasteland: The Discursive Structuring of Cities / Ingo H. Warnke
Note continued: 9.Re-designing the Metropolis: Purpose and Perception of the Ruhr District as European Capital of Culture 2010 / Achim Prossek -- 10.Strategic Staging of Urbanity: Urban Images in Films and Film Images in Hamburg's City Marketing / Anke Struver -- 11.`Neoliberalism with Chinese Characteristics': Consumer Pedagogy in Macao / Tim Simpson -- pt. IV CONSEQUENCES OF FASCINATION: NEW HORIZONS -- 12.Excess, Fascination and Climates / John Urry.

ISBN:

9781409418535 (hardback ; alk. paper)
1409418537 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9781409418542 (ebook)
1409418545 (ebook)

Subject:

Sociology, Urban.
Cities and towns.
City and town life.
Urbanization.
City planning.
Cities
Sociologie urbaine.
Villes.
Vie urbaine.
Urbanisation.
urban sociology.
cities.
urbanization.
Stadtleben
Faszination
Stadt
Städtebau
Stadtsoziologie.
Stadssociologi.
Urbanisering.
Stadsplanering.
Städer.
Stadsliv.

Added entries:

Schmid, Heiko.
Sahr, Wolf-Dietrich.
Urry, John.
Re-materialising cultural geography.

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Location: Library main 274529
Call No.: BIB 208317
Status: Available

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