A critical look at cultural urban regeneration and how it is used as a political tool by the ruling elite to police populations.
This book offers a critical introduction to the relation between cities and fiction, poetry and literary criticism from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It examines examples of writing from Europe, North America and post-colonial countries.
International in scope with a focus on everyday life and governance issues, Miles's innovative book looks at today's efforts to build a new society, exploring detailed case analyses within a wide theoretical and cross disciplinary framework.
Modernist urbanism seems progressive, even Utopian: design for a better world through a democratic and humane built environment.
A critical account of the relations between contemporary cities and the cultures they produce (and which in turn shape them) this book questions received ideas of what constitutes a city's culture through case studies
A critical account of the relations between contemporary cities and the cultures they produce (and which in turn shape them) this book questions received ideas of what constitutes a city's culture through case studies
This book sees public art outside the normal confines of art criticism and place it within broader contexts of public space and gender. Using different perspectives, it explores both the aesthetic and political aspects of the medium.
This book sees public art outside the normal confines of art criticism and place it within broader contexts of public space and gender. Using different perspectives, it explores both the aesthetic and political aspects of the medium.
International in scope with a focus on everyday life and governance issues, Miles's innovative book looks at today's efforts to build a new society, exploring detailed case analyses within a wide theoretical and cross disciplinary framework.
Modernist urbanism seems progressive, even Utopian: design for a better world through a democratic and humane built environment.