Transforming Cities
Discourses of Urban Change
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1. Edition, 2018
242 Pages
ISBN: 978-3-8253-6749-7
Product: Book
Edition: Softcover
Subject: Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Series: anglistik & englischunterricht, Volume No.: 85
Available: 31.01.2018
Keywords:
Urbanität, Urbanisierung, Globalisierung, Klimawandel, Energiewende, Mobilität, Migration, demographischer Wandel, London, 20. Jahrhundert, Fernsehserien, Prostitution, Neo-Viktorianischer Roman, Dublin, Neo-Gothic, Stadtgeographie, Amsterdam, Eco-Fiction, 21. Jahrhundert
Today, the majority of people worldwide live in cities or metropolitan areas. This volume responds with a transdisciplinary approach to growing urbanisation and globalisation – climate change, energy change, secure jobs, affordable living, sustainable mobility, migration or demographic change. It brings together recent research in the areas of Urban and Media Studies, 19th- and 20th-century urban fiction and Victorian and neo-Victorian Studies. The contributors endeavor to compare various discourses of urban transformation – expansion, corruption, renewal, dereliction, adaptation – that have emerged in situations of rapid, uncontrolled change.
Fields covered include the London Green Belt and ecocritical flânerie in New York, neo-Victorian streetwalking in novels by Peter Ackroyd and Michel Faber, the global impact of urban transformations on Dublin or Hong Kong, ‘slumming’ in the TV series ‘Maison Close’, ‘Ripper Street’ and ‘Penny Dreadful’ as well as Amsterdam’s Red Light District and urban geographies of entertainment in London, from the Crystal Palace to the Millennium Dome.
Contrib. by: Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Nora Pleßke, Eckart Voigts, Vanessa Miriam Carlow, Julia Faisst, Susanne Gruß, Nadine Böhm-Schnitker, Sarah Artt, Joyce Goggin, Antonija Primorac, Elizabeth Ho, Christian Gutleben, Marie-Luise Kohlke
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Anni Lappela in: The Literary London Journal, 15.1 (2018), 43-44, URL: http://literarylondon.org/the-literary-london-journal/archive-of-the-literary-london-journal/issue-15-1/
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in: Bibliographie Moderner Fremdsprachenunterricht, 2018/3 [Do-916-85]
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