Looking for a City in America
Author | : André Corboz |
Publisher | : David R. Godine Publisher |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1994-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 0879239352 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780879239350 |
Rating | : 4/5 (350 Downloads) |
Download or read book Looking for a City in America written by André Corboz and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 1994-10 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his richly perceptive essay, Corboz takes to task previous European analyses of the American city which, he suggests, are little more than reflections of their own old-world bad faith. Using post-modern Los Angeles--the L.A. of contemporary cultural theorists Frederic Jameson and Mike Davis--as the terrain upon which his argument advances, he makes the case for a new city without a center yet united by what he sees as a typically American gregarious individualism.