Transforming Cities | Discourses of Urban Change

Monika Pietrzak-Franger (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 3825367495 / ISBN 13: 9783825367497

Published by Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018

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Transforming Cities | Discourses of Urban Change | Monika Pietrzak-Franger (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | 242 S. | Englisch | 2018 | Universitätsverlag Winter | EAN 9783825367497 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Universitätsverlag Winter GmbH Heidelberg, Dagmar Konetzka, Dossenheimer Landstr. 13, 69121 Heidelberg, gpsr[at]winter-verlag[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Transforming Cities | Discourses of Urban Change
• Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3825367495
• ISBN 13: 9783825367497
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 212W x 137H x 15D millimeters 212 millimeters width by 137 millimeters height by 15 millimeters depth
• Weight: 313 grams
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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.