Peterson / McDonogh Global Downtowns

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8122-0805-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

Reihe: The City in the Twenty-First Century

Global Downtowns weaves together rich cultural materials from North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America to explore the most iconic space of modern urban imagery and identity. Essays bring diverse downtowns to life while probing deeper shared theoretical and pragmatic questions of power, division, consumption, and conflict.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peterson, Marina

McDonogh, Gary

Über Autor(innen)

Marina Peterson is Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University and author of Sound, Space, and the City: Civic Performance in Downtown Los Angeles, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Gary McDonogh is Professor in the Growth and the Structure of Cities program at Bryn Mawr College. He has written and edited many books, most recently Iberian Worlds.