Cities in Modernity - Representations and Productions of Metropolitan Space, 1840-1930

Informationen zum Autor Richard Dennis is Reader in the Department of Geography, UCL. He is associate editor of the Journal of Urban History and the author of English Industrial Cities of the Nineteenth Century: A Social Geography (1984). Klappentext An exploration of what made cities 'modern' in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Zusammenfassung This book explores the connections between culture, economy and built environment in cities during the period 1840–1930, focusing principally on London, New York and Toronto. It discusses both the cultural experience of modernity and the material modernization of cities, as well as the gendered experience of place. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Building bridges; 2. The idea of progress; 3. Surveying the city; 4. Writing and picturing the city; 5. Improving streets; 6. Public spaces - practised places; 7. Building suburbia; 8. Consuming suburbia; 9. Mansion flats and model dwellings; 10. Geographies of downtown: office spaces; 11. Geographies of downtown: the place of shopping; 12. Networked cities.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Dennis, Richard (University College London) Dennis
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.04.2008
• EAN: 9780521464703
• ISBN: 978-0-521-46470-3
• No. of pages: 458
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Historica
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography