Paris, Berlin, London, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles - these define "the city" in the world's consciousness. James Donald takes us on a psychic journey to these places which have inspired artists, writers, architects and filmmakers for centuries. Artists and social critics - from Dickens to Baudelaire, Fritz Lang, Virginia Woolf, Wim Wenders, Ridley Scott and others - have seen the city as the locus not just of vanity, squalor and injustice, but also of civilized society's highest aspirations. Considering the ...
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Paris, Berlin, London, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles - these define "the city" in the world's consciousness. James Donald takes us on a psychic journey to these places which have inspired artists, writers, architects and filmmakers for centuries. Artists and social critics - from Dickens to Baudelaire, Fritz Lang, Virginia Woolf, Wim Wenders, Ridley Scott and others - have seen the city as the locus not just of vanity, squalor and injustice, but also of civilized society's highest aspirations. Considering the cultural and political implications of the "urban imaginary," Donald contends that the imagined city remains the best lens for a future of democratic community.
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