Textbook

Cities and Cultures

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Cities and Cultures is a critical account of the relations between contemporary cities and the cultures they produce and which in turn shape them. The book questions received ideas of what constitutes a city's culture through case studies in which different kinds of culture - the arts, cultural institutions and heritage, distinctive ways of life - are seen to be different used in or affected by the development of particular cities. The book does not mask the complexity of this, but explains it in ways accessible for undergraduates. The book begins with introductory chapters on the concepts of a city and a culture (the latter the
anthropological sense as well as denoting the arts), citing cases from modern literature. The book then moves from a critical account of cultural production in a metropolitan setting to the idea that a city, is
produced through the characteristic ways of life of its inhabitants. The cultural industries are scrutinised for their relation to such cultures as well as to city marketing, and attention is given to the European Cities of
Culture initiative, and to the hybridity of contemporary urban cultures in a period of globalisation and migration. In its penultimate chapter the book looks at incidental cultural forms and cultural means to
identify formation; and in its final chapter, examines the permeability of urban cultures and cultural forms. Sources are introduced, positions clarified and contrasted, and notes given for selective further reading.
Playing on the two meanings of culture, Miles takes an unique approach by relating arguments around these meanings to specific cases of urban development today. The book includes both critical comment on a range-of literatures - being a truly inter-disciplinary - and the outcome of the author's field research into urban cultures.

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307.76 MIL c

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Informasi Detail

Judul Seri

Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City

No. Panggil

307.76 MIL c

Penerbit

London : Routledge., 2007

Deskripsi Fisik

xi, 243 hal.; ilus.; 15,6 x 23,5 cm.; indeks.

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Inggris

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-415-35442-4

Klasifikasi

307.76

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text

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Edisi

Ed. 1, Cet. 1

Subjek

CITY PLANNING
Culture

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