Stewart Public Speaking in the City

Debating and Shaping the Urban Experience
2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-24362-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 211 Seiten, eBook

Providing a compelling analysis of debates in and about the modern city, this book draws upon architecture, history, literary studies, new media and sociology to explore the multiple connections between location, speech and the emerging modern metropolis. It concludes by reflecting on public speaking in the construction of the virtual city.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stewart, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures Introduction: Public Speaking in the Modern City Look Who's Talking Architects and the Urban Public Appearing in Public Locating the Voices Epilogue: Public Speaking and the City of the Future Notes Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

JANET STEWART directs the Visual Culture Masters Programme at the University of Aberdeen, UK, where she also teaches Comparative Literature and German, and contributes to the Centre for Modern Thought. She is the author of the acclaimed monograph Fashioning Vienna: Adolf Loos's Cultural Criticism .