Friday, January 27, 2012

City Cultures Reader


City Cultures Reader is an outstanding collection of 60 texts, focussing on the cultural aspects, frameworks and perceptions of cities. Organised into twelve sections this text draws on material from cultural studies, architectural criticism and theory, cultural and human geography, urban design and critical theory. This exciting collection of readings draws out the comparisons and contrasts of the city by the juxtaposition of texts in each section. The excellent line up of contributors discuss a variety of current issues including:
· utopian and dystopian visions 
· ecology
· social justice
· city form
· possible futures.
· every day life

Biography

Malcolm Miles is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University, Iain Borden is Senior Lecturer in Architectural History at The Bartlett, University College London and Tim Hall is Lecturer in Human Geography at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education.

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