The sphinx in the city : urban life, the control of disorder, and women / Elizabeth Wilson.

Main entry:

Wilson, Elizabeth, 1936-

Title & Author:

The sphinx in the city : urban life, the control of disorder, and women / Elizabeth Wilson.

Edition:

1st University of California Press ed.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1992.

Description:

191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Originally published: London : Virago Press, 1991.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-182) and index.
Into the labyrinth -- From Kitsch City to the city sublime -- Cesspool city : London -- The city of the floating world : Paris -- Cities of the American dream -- Architecture and consciousness in central Europe -- The lost metropolis -- World cities -- Beyond good and evil.

Summary:

"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 Sao 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 and reformers have repeatedly attempted to regulate women-and the working class and ethnic minorities-by means of grandiose, utopian plans, nearly destroying the richness of urban culture. City centers have become uninhabited business districts, the countryside suburbanized. There is danger without pleasure, consumerism without choice, safety without stimulation. What is needed is a new understanding of city life and Wilson gives us an intriguing introduction to what this might be." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/ucal041/91031209.html.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0520078500 (cloth)
9780520078505 (cloth)
0520078640 (paper)
9780520078642 (paper)

Subject:

Börngen, ...
City and town life.
Urban women.
City planning.
Cities and towns.
Cities
City Planning
Vie urbaine.
Femmes en milieu urbain.
Urbanisme.
Villes.
cities.
urban planning.
71.14 urban society.
Großstadt
Soziologie
Stadtentwicklung
Stadtplanung
Frau
Stadscultuur.
Stadsplanning.
Vrouwen.
Sociale controle.
Cities Social conditions

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Location: Library main 72857
Call No.: ID:92-B1406
Status: Available

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