This book explores the connections between culture, economy and built environment in cities during the period 1840â 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.
This book explores the connections between culture, economy and built environment in cities during the period 1840â 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.
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).
Inhaltsangabe
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.
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.
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