Real Cities: Modernity, Space and the Phantasmagorias of City Life

by Steve Pile

What is real about city life? Real Cities shows why it is necessary to take seriously the more imaginary, fantastic and emotional aspects of city life.

Drawing inspiration from the work of Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud and Georg Simmel, Pile explores the dream-like and ghost-like experiences of the city. Such experiences are, he argues, best described as phantasmagorias. The phantasmagorias of city life, though commonplace,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761970428
• ISBN13: 9780761970422
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.5"