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Wilson, Elizabeth

 
9780520078642: The Sphinx in the City: Urban Life, the Control of Disorder, and Women
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0520078640 ISBN 13 : 9780520078642
Editeur : University of California Press, 1992

Synopsis

Elizabeth Wilson's elegant, provocative, and scholarly study uses fiction, essays, film, and art, as well as history and sociology, to look at some of the world's greatest cities-London, Paris, Moscow, New York, Chicago, Lusaka, and São Paulo-and presents a powerful critique of utopian planning, anti-urbanism, postmodernism, and traditional architecture. For women the city offers freedom, including sexual freedom, but also new dangers. Planners and reformers have repeatedly attempted to regulate women-and the working class and ethnic minorities-by means of grandiose, utopian plans, nearly destroying the richness of urban culture. City centers have become uninhabited business districts, the countryside suburbanized. There is danger without pleasure, consumerism without choice, safety without stimulation. What is needed is a new understanding of city life and Wilson gives us an intriguing introduction to what this might be.

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À propos de l'auteur

Elizabeth Wilson is Professor of Social Studies at the Polytechnic of North London, and the author of a number of books, including Adorned in Dreams (California, 1988) and Hallucinations (Constable, 1989).

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
1992
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520078640
ISBN 13 
9780520078642
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
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