Cityscapes: Cultural Readings in the Material and Symbolic City

by Ben Highmore (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2005

  $46.27

  Using a range of cultural forms Cityscapes spans the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, finding vivid examples of urban movements in Edgar Allan Poe's London, in Parisian departments stores, in colonial and anti-colonial Algiers, in the North American cities of recent detective fiction, and in the virtual city of The Matrix.