Cities in Modernity: Representations and Productions of Metropolitan Space, 1840-1930

by Richard Dennis

Book Overview

What made cities 'modern' in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Cities in Modernity explores connections between culture, economy and built environment in cities of this period, drawing its evidence principally from London, New York and Toronto. The book discusses both the cultural experience of modernity and the material modernization of cities, placing special emphasis on their historical geographies, on the production, representation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521468418
• ISBN13: 9780521468411
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 458 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 9.9"