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Urban encounters / Helen Liggett.
LIBRA HT123 .L44 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Liggett, Helen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cities and towns--United States.
- Cities and towns.
- Cities and towns--United States--Pictorial works.
- City and town life--United States--Pictorial works.
- City and town life.
- Urban geography--United States.
- Urban geography.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 192 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- In contrast to Walter Benjamin, Henri Lefebvre, and other European thinkers engaged with the concept of the urban, American intellectuals tend to envision the modern city as a dystopia, their perception of urban life influenced by negative stereotypes and fictional depictions in popular culture. In Urban Encounters, Helen Liggett challenges this fatalism by approaching the city as a vibrant, lived space. Combining a sophisticated critique of the urban with striking, street-level images, Liggett reclaims the human experience of the city.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-181) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0816641269
- 0816641277
- OCLC:
- 51060236
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