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Urban Formalism: The Work of City Reading

Urban Formalism: The Work of City Reading

Faflik, David

Paperback

Series: Polis: Fordham Urban Studies

Literary CriticismGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0823287688
ISBN13: 9780823287680
Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr
Published: Apr 7 2020
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.45 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

Urban Formalism radically reimagines what it meant to read a brave new urban world during the transformative middle decades of the nineteenth century. At a time when contemporaries in the twin capitals of modernity in the West, New York and Paris, were learning to make sense of unfamiliar surroundings, city peoples increasingly looked to the experiential patterns, or forms, from their everyday lives in an attempt to translate urban experience into something they could more easily comprehend. Urban Formalism interrogates both the risks and rewards of an interpretive practice that depended on the mutual relation between urbanism and formalism, at a moment when the subjective experience of the city had reached unprecedented levels of complexity.

This book not only provides an original cultural history of forms. It posits a new form of urban history, comprising the representative rituals of interpretation that have helped give meaningful shape to metropolitan life.

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