Transforming Cities. Discourses of Urban Change (= Anglistik & Englischunterricht, Band 85).

Pietrzak-Franger, Monika u.a.:

ISBN 10: 3825367495 / ISBN 13: 9783825367497

Published by Heidelberg, Winter, 2018

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242 Seiten. 21 x 13,5 cm. ISBN 9783825367497 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 600 Kartoniert (wie neu, noch original verschweißt).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transforming Cities. Discourses of Urban Change (= Anglistik & Englischunterricht, Band 85).
• Publisher: Heidelberg, Winter
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3825367495
• ISBN 13: 9783825367497
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Wie neu
• Weight: 600 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Soziologie Sozialgeschichte

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Synopsis

Today, the majority of people worldwide live in cities or metropolitan areas. This volume responds with a transdisciplinary approach to growing urbanisation and globalisation - climate change, energy change, secure jobs, affordable living, sustainable mobility, migration or demographic change. It brings together recent research in the areas of Urban and Media Studies, 19th- and 20th-century urban fiction and Victorian and neo-Victorian Studies. The contributors endeavor to compare various discourses of urban transformation - expansion, corruption, renewal, dereliction, adaptation - that have emerged in situations of rapid, uncontrolled change. Fields covered include the London Green Belt and ecocritical flanerie in New York, neo-Victorian streetwalking in novels by Peter Ackroyd and Michel Faber, the global impact of urban transformations on Dublin or Hong Kong, 'slumming' in the TV series 'Maison Close', 'Ripper Street' and 'Penny Dreadful' as well as Amsterdam's Red Light District and urban geographies of entertainment in London, from the Crystal Palace to the Millennium Dome.