The sphinx in the city : urban life, the control of disorder, and women
"Elizabeth Wilson's elegant, provocative, and scholarly study uses fiction, essays, film, and art, as well as history and sociology, to look at some of the world's greatest cities-London, Paris, Moscow, New York, Chicago, Lusaka, and Sao Paulo-and presents a powerful critique of utopian planning, anti-urbanism, postmodernism, and traditional architecture. For women the city offers freedom, including sexual freedom, but also new dangers. Planners and reformers have repeatedly attempted to regulate women-and the working class and ethnic minorities-by means of grandiose, utopian plans, nearly destroying the richness of urban culture. City centers have become uninhabited business districts, the countryside suburbanized. There is danger without pleasure, consumerism without choice, safety without stimulation. What is needed is a new understanding of city life and Wilson gives us an intriguing introduction to what this might be." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/ucal041/91031209.html
Print Book, English, 1992
1st University of California Press ed View all formats and editions
University of California Press, Berkeley, 1992
191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780520078505, 9780520078642, 0520078500, 0520078640
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Into the labyrinth
From Kitsch City to the city sublime
Cesspool city : London
The city of the floating world : Paris
Cities of the American dream
Architecture and consciousness in central Europe
The lost metropolis
World cities
Beyond good and evil
Originally published: London : Virago Press, 1991