ABSTRACT
'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?
Hieroglyphics of Space addresses this 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 experiencing the modern metropolis.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I The legible metropolis
chapter 1|16 pages
The metropolis as text: Otto Wagner and Vienna’s ‘Second Renaissance’ D AV I D FRISBY
part |2 pages
Part II The political metropolis
chapter 4|11 pages
Resurrecting an imperial past: strategies of self-representation and ‘masquerade’ in fascist Rome (1934–1938) ANNA N O TA R O
chapter 5|10 pages
Airbrushed Moscow: the cathedral of Christ the Saviour N ATA SHA CHIBIRE VA
chapter 6|12 pages
Erasing the traces: the ‘denazification’ of post-revolutionary Berlin and Bucharest
chapter 7|9 pages
Erasing the traces: the ‘denazification’ of post-apartheid Johannesburg and Pretoria
part |2 pages
Part III The gendered metropolis
chapter 8|22 pages
The pursuit of pleasure: London rambling
part |2 pages
Part IV The representational metropolis
chapter 10|13 pages
‘Waiting, waiting’: the hotel lobby, in the modern city DOUGLAS TA LLACK
chapter 11|12 pages
Venice: masking the real BARRY C U RT I S AND CLAIRE PA JACZKOWSKA
part |2 pages
Part V The filmic metropolis
part |2 pages
Part VI The economic metropolis