The sphinx in the city : urban life, the control of disorder, and women /
"Elizabeth Wilson's elegant, provocative, and scholarly study uses fiction, essays, film, and art, as well as history and sociology, to look at some of the world's greatest cities-London, Paris, Moscow, New York, Chicago, Lusaka, and Sao Paulo-and presents a powerful critique of utopi...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1992.
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Table of Contents:
- Into the labyrinth
- From Kitsch City to the city sublime
- Cesspool city : London
- The city of the floating world : Paris
- Cities of the American dream
- Architecture and consciousness in central Europe
- The lost metropolis
- World cities
- Beyond good and evil.