{"product_id":"urban-formalism-the-work-of-city-reading-paperback-softback-9780823287680","title":"Urban Formalism; The Work of City Reading (Paperback \/ softback) 9780823287680","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eUrban Formalism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Work of City Reading\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Faflik (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823287680\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 7 April 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e144 pages, 12\u003cbr\u003e20.3 x 12.7 x 1.2 cm, 0.232 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUrban Formalism \u003c\/i\u003eradically reimagines what it meant to \"read\" a brave new urban world during the transformative middle decades of the nineteenth century. At a time when contemporaries in the twin capitals of modernity in the West, New York and Paris, were learning to make sense of unfamiliar surroundings, city peoples increasingly looked to the experiential patterns, or forms, from their everyday lives in an attempt to translate urban experience into something they could more easily comprehend. \u003ci\u003eUrban Formalism \u003c\/i\u003einterrogates both the risks and rewards of an interpretive practice that depended on the mutual relation between urbanism and formalism, at a moment when the subjective experience of the city had reached unprecedented levels of complexity.\u003cbr\u003e This book not only provides an original cultural history of forms. It posits a new form of urban history, comprising the representative rituals of interpretation that have helped give meaningful shape to metropolitan life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/b\u003e  1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1 \u003c\/b\u003eStrong Reading, or the Literary Conversion of the Urban   17\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2\u003c\/b\u003e Reading the Urban Form of Fire   46\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3\u003c\/b\u003e The Revolutionary Formalism of France   72\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4\u003c\/b\u003e Photography and the Image of the City   96\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAfterword \u003c\/b\u003e  124\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e  127\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  131\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBibliography \u003c\/i\u003e  149\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  179\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580357865752,"sku":"9780823287680","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/urban-formalism-the-work-of-city-reading-paperback-softback-9780823287680","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}