metropolis in modern life — Scriptorium Liberum

Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and

📁 Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan

✍ Louise Young 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 University of California Press 🌐 English

<DIV>In Beyond the Metropolis, Louise Young looks at the emergence of urbanism in the interwar period, a global moment when the material and ideological structures that constitute the city” took their characteristic modern shape. In Japan, as elsewhere, cities became the staging ground for w

Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and

📁 Beyond the Metropolis: Second Cities and Modern Life in Interwar Japan

✍ Louise Young 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 University of California Press 🌐 English

In Beyond the Metropolis, Louise Young looks at the emergence of urbanism in the interwar period, a global moment when the material and ideological structures that constitute "the city" took their characteristic modern shape. In Japan, as elsewhere, cities became the staging ground for wid

The Gentrification Debates: A Reader (Th

📁 The Gentrification Debates: A Reader (The Metropolis and Modern Life)

✍ Japonica Brown-Saracino 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

Uniquely well suited for teaching, this innovative text-reader strengthens students’ critical thinking skills, sparks classroom discussion, and also provides a comprehensive and accessible understanding of gentrification.

Women in the metropolis: gender and mode

📁 Women in the metropolis: gender and modernity in Weimar culture

✍ Katharina von Ankum 📂 Library 📅 1997 🏛 University of California Press 🌐 English

Bringing together the work of scholars in many disciplines, Women in the Metropolis provides a comprehensive introduction to women's experience of modernism and urbanization in Weimar Germany. It shows women as active participants in artistic, social, and political movements and documents the wide r

Women in the Metropolis: Gender and Mode

📁 Women in the Metropolis: Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture

✍ Katharina von Ankum (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2020 🏛 University of California Press 🌐 English

Ethnography Unbound: Power and Resistanc

📁 Ethnography Unbound: Power and Resistance in the Modern Metropolis

✍ Michael Burawoy, Alice Burton, Ann Arnett Ferguson, Kathryn J. Fox 📂 Library 📅 1991 🏛 University of California Press 🌐 English

In this powerful volume, ten original ethnographies explore two important issues: the ways in which people confront the threats and disruptions of contemporary life, and the ways in which researchers can most effectively study the modern metropolis. With its twofold agenda, the volume emerges as a m