| Description |
1 online resource (289 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City |
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Routledge critical introductions to urbanism and the city.
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| Contents |
Cover; Cities and Photography; Copyright; Contents; List of Boxes; Photographs and Acknowledgements; General introduction; Part 1: Contexts; 1. Cities and urbanism; 2. Photography concepts; 3. Photography and/in/of the city; Part 2: The documented city; 4. Walking the city; 5. Social and political practices; Part 3: The metaphorical city; 6. Postmodern megalopolis; 7. City and subject; 8. Psycho-geographies and the city; Selected bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Photographs display attitudes, agency and vision in the way cities are documented and imagined. Cities and Photography explores the relationship between people and the city, visualized in photographs. It provides a visually focused examination of the city and urbanism for a range of different disciplines: across the social sciences and humanities, photography and fine art. This text offers different perspectives from which to view social, political and cultural ideas about the city and urbanism, through both verbal discussion and photographic representation. It provides intro |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Street photography.
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City and town life -- Pictorial works
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Photography -- Social aspects
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City and town life
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Photography -- Social aspects
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Street photography
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| Genre/Form |
Pictorial works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135190354 |
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1135190356 |
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