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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主要作者: Wilson, Elizabeth
格式: 圖書
語言:English
出版: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1992.
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書本目錄:
  • 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.