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100 _aWilson, Elizabeth
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245 _aThe sphinx in the city :
_burban life, the control of disorder, and women /
_cElizabeth Wilson
260 _aBerkeley :
_bUniversity of California Press,
_c1992.
300 _a191 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm.
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."
526 _aARC
650 _aCity and town life.
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650 _aUrban women.
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650 _aCity planning.
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650 _aCities and towns.
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650 _aArchitecture.
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852 _aAyesha Abed Library
_cGeneral Stacks
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