Urban Formalism The Work of City Reading |
|
| Author:
| Faflik, David |
| Series title: | Polis: Fordham Series in Urban Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8232-8768-0 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2020 |
| Publisher: | Fordham University Press
|
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $33.00 |
Book Description:
|
This book examines how the city peoples of New York and Paris interpreted their urban surroundings during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. At the center of this examination are the literary, material, political, and visual forms which afforded contemporaries new ways of "reading" the modern metropolis.
This book examines how the city peoples of New York and Paris interpreted their urban surroundings during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. At the center of this examination are the literary, material, political, and visual forms which afforded contemporaries new ways of "reading" the modern metropolis.