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Text and the City
Language: en
Pages: 409
Authors: Ai Maeda
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-03-25 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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Maeda Ai was a prominent literary critic and an influential public intellectual in late-twentieth-century Japan. Text and the City is the first book of his work
The City as Text
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: James S. Duncan
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Argues that landscapes are not only culturally produced, but they also influence governing ideas of political and religious life.
A City in Fragments
Language: en
Pages: 403
Authors: Yair Wallach
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-30 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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In the mid-nineteenth century, Jerusalem was rich with urban texts inscribed in marble, gold, and cloth, investing holy sites with divine meaning. Ottoman moder
Text and Image in the City
Language: en
Pages: 190
Authors: Catherine Armstrong
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-07 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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The essays in this collection discuss how the city is ‘textualized’, and address many aspects of how texts and images are written and produced in, and about
Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text
Language: en
Pages: 226
Authors: Robbie B. H. Goh
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: World Scientific

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Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text examines the ways in which culture, ethnicity, languages, traditions, governance, policies and histories interplay i