David Faflik

Urban Formalism (eBook, PDF)

The Work of City Reading

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Produktbeschreibung

Urban Formalism radically reimagines what it meant to "e;read"e; a brave new urban world during the transformative middle decades of the nineteenth century. At a time when contemporaries in the twin capitals of modernity in the West, New York and Paris, were learning to make sense of unfamiliar surroundings, city peoples increasingly looked to the experiential patterns, or forms, from their everyday lives in an attempt to translate urban experience into something they could more easily comprehend. Urban Formalism interrogates both the risks and rewards of an interpretive practice that depended on the mutual relation between urbanism and formalism, at a moment when the subjective experience of the city had reached unprecedented levels of complexity.This book not only provides an original cultural history of forms. It posits a new form of urban history, comprising the representative rituals of interpretation that have helped give meaningful shape to metropolitan life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780823288052
• Artikelnr.: 72417597

Autorenporträt

David Faflik

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
1 Strong Reading, or the Literary Conversion of the Urban 17
2 Reading the Urban Form of Fire 46
3 The Revolutionary Formalism of France 72
4 Photography and the Image of the City 96
Afterword 124
Acknowledgments 127
Notes 131
Bibliography 149
Index 179