Cityscapes of Modernity: Critical Explorations

by David Frisby

The modern metropolis has been one of the crucial sites for the exploration of modernity since at least the mid-nineteenth century. In this new volume, David Frisby provides an original and critical examination of the construction and experience of metropolitan modernity.
Drawing on a rich variety of sources, Frisby seeks to reveal some key features of metropolitan experience in modernity. Among the issues examined are Benjamin's account of the flâneur and its relevance for social investigation and urban detection; Simmel's influential essay on the metropolis; contrasting interpretations of fin-de-siècle Berlin and Vienna by Sombart; the work of Otto Wagner; and the response to the modern metropolis as highlighted in German Expressionism and Weimar Berlin.
Cityscapes of Modernity will be a valuable text for students of sociology, social theory, urban theory, cultural studies and architectural history, as well as all those interested in the urban culture of modernity.

Genres: Nonfiction

392 pages, Paperback

First published January 3, 2001

About the author

David Frisby was Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and author of Cityscapes of Modernity: Critical Explorations (Cambridge, 2001).

Reviews

[Merve · Rating 4 out of 5]

Talihsizlige bak güzel bir kitabı, boykota aldığım bir yayinevinden alıp okumaya başlamışım. Bir daha bu kitabı gönül rahatlığıyla nasıl okurum bilmiyorum. Önceden bilseydim. Olan oldu bir kere. Bunda sonra artık daha dikkatli olunacak.
Kitap David Frisby'nin sehre sosyo-kulturel açıdan yaklaşan, sosyolojik altyapı gerektiren kuramsal bir çalışma. Ben en çok Flanörlüge dair yaptığı analizleri beğendim.