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      The Anxious City
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      British Urbanism in the late 20th Century

      The Anxious City

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      The Anxious City book

      British Urbanism in the late 20th Century
      ByRichard J. Williams
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2004
      eBook Published 10 November 2004
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203490976
      Pages 296
      eBook ISBN 9780203490976
      Subjects Built Environment
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      Williams, R.J. (2004). The Anxious City: British Urbanism in the late 20th Century (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203490976

      ABSTRACT

      In the Western world, cities have arguably never been more anxious: practical anxieties about personal safety and metaphysical anxieties about the uncertain place of the city in culture are the small change of journalism and political debate. Cities have long been regarded as problems, in need of drastic solutions. In this context, the contemporary revival of city centres is remarkable. But in a culture that largely fears the urban, how can the contemporary city be imagined? How is it supposed to be used or inhabited? What does it mean? Taking England since WWII as its principal focus, this provocative and original book considers the Western city at a critical moment in its history.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|24 pages

      The anxious city

      chapter 2|29 pages

      The picturesque city

      chapter 3|28 pages

      The free city

      chapter 4|25 pages

      The mediterranean city

      chapter 5|22 pages

      The city in ruins

      chapter 6|25 pages

      The architecture of civility

      chapter 7|25 pages

      ‘America, E14’

      chapter 8|21 pages

      The museum, the city and the space of flows

      chapter 9|28 pages

      The spectacle of pleasure

      chapter 10|14 pages

      Staging the city

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