Obsession, Aesthetics, and the Iberian City: The Partial Madness of Modern Urban Culture

by Benjamin Fraser

Although many depictions of the city in prose, poetry, and visual art can be found dating from earlier periods in human history, Obsession, Aesthetics, and the Iberian City emphasizes a particular phase in urban development. This is the quintessentially modern city that comes into being in the nineteenth century. In social terms, this nineteenth-century city is the product of a specialist class of planners engaged in what urban theorist Henri...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826502385
• ISBN13: 9780826502384
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"