Subterranean Cities - The World Beneath Paris and London, 18001945

Klappentext Illustrated with photographs, movie stills, prints, engravings, paintings, cartoons, maps, and drawings of actual and imagined urban spaces, Subterranean Cities documents the emergence of a novel space in the subterranean obsessions and anxieties within nineteenth-century urban culture. Chapters on the subways, sewers, and cemeteries of Paris and London provide a detailed analysis of these competing centers of urban modernity. A concluding chapter considers the enduring influence of these spaces on urban culture at the turn of the twenty-first century. Zusammenfassung The underground has been a dominant image of modern life since the late eighteenth century. A site of crisis, fascination, and hidden truth, the underground is a space at once more immediate and more threatening than the ordinary world above. In...

Product details

• Authors: David L. Pike
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.10.2005
• EAN: 9780801472565
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-7256-5
• No. of pages: 374
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History