The Hieroglyphics of Space

"'Spatial images', wrote the German cultural theorist Siegfried Kracauer, 'are the dreams of society. Wherever the hieroglyphics of any spatial image are deciphered, there the basis of social reality presents itself.' But how exactly are these spatial images to be deciphered? This volume addresses his question with a series of insightful essays on some of the great metropolitan centres of the world. From political interpretations to gendered analyses, from methods of mapping to filmic representations, and from studies in consumption to economic surveys, the volume offers a range of strategies for reading and experience the modern metropolis."--Back cover.

First sentence: The notion of the city, its streets, its architecture, its populace, as a text is to be found in various forms in the work of many writers since at least the nineteenth century.

Year

2001

Language

English

Publisher

Routledge

Editions

10

Pages

320

ISBN

9780415198912

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