Metropolis on the Styx

by David L. Pike

Book Overview

In Metropolis on the Styx, David L. Pike considers how underground spaces and their many myths have organized ways of seeing, thinking about, and living in the modern city. Expanding on the cultural history of underground construction in his acclaimed previous book, Subterranean Cities, Pike details the emergence of a vertical city in the imagination of nineteenth-century Paris and London, a city overseen by hosts of devils and undermined by subterranean...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801473047
• ISBN13: 9780801473043
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.2" x 6.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher