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Alone in the crowd : utopia and dystopia on the Parisian boulevards / by Amanda J. Field.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Field, Amanda J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Utopias--Early works to 1800.
- Utopias.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (24 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Gosport, [England] : Chaplin Books, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Alone in the Crowd discusses the identity of nineteenth-century Paris, one of the most widely imaged cities in the modern world, whose most enduring attribute is that of a city of spectacle - a city of the pleasure of looking and being looked at simultaneously. Did Haussmann's re-figuring of the city, with its unrelenting straight boulevards, stirring vistas and uniform buildings, create a 'mass produced' image of Paris? If so, who benefited - and who lost out - in the construction of this ...
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Front Matter; Title Page; Publisher Information; Utopia and Dystopia...; Alone in the Crowd; Back Matter; Bibliography; Also Available
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 8, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 1-909183-90-3
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