Sphinx in the City

by Elizabeth Wilson

Book Overview

Elizabeth Wilson's elegant, provocative, and scholarly study uses fiction, essays, film, and art, as well as history and sociology, to look at some of the world's greatest cities--London, Paris, Moscow, New York, Chicago, Lusaka, and S o Paulo--and presents a powerful critique of utopian planning, anti-urbanism, postmodernism, and traditional architecture. For women the city offers freedom, including sexual freedom, but also new dangers. Planners...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520078640
• ISBN13: 9780520078642
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 191 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"