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_aWilson, Elizabeth _928622 |
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_aThe sphinx in the city : _burban life, the control of disorder, and women / _cElizabeth Wilson |
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_aBerkeley : _bUniversity of California Press, _c1992. |
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_a191 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm. |
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500 | _aOriginally published: London : Virago Press, 1991. | ||
504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 170-182) and index. | ||
505 | _aInto 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. | ||
520 | _a"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 utopian planning, anti-urbanism, postmodernism, and traditional architecture. For women the city offers freedom, including sexual freedom, but also new dangers. Planners and reformers have repeatedly attempted to regulate women-and the working class and ethnic minorities-by means of grandiose, utopian plans, nearly destroying the richness of urban culture. City centers have become uninhabited business districts, the countryside suburbanized. There is danger without pleasure, consumerism without choice, safety without stimulation. What is needed is a new understanding of city life and Wilson gives us an intriguing introduction to what this might be." | ||
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_aCity and town life. _928638 |
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_aUrban women. _928639 |
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_aCity planning. _928640 |
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_aCities and towns. _928641 |
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_aArchitecture. _942870 |
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_aAyesha Abed Library _cGeneral Stacks |
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