Walking Cities: London (2)

By: Jean-Luc Nancy and Esther Leslie and Douglas Murphy and Phil Smith and Steve Pile and Ahuvia Kahane and David Dernie and Richard Wentworth and Rosana Antoli and Sean Ashton and Rut Blees Luxemburg and Amy Blier-Carruthers and Duncan Jeffs and Jaspar Joseph-Lester and Adam Kaasa and Nayan Kulkarni and Sharon Kivland and Laura Oldfield Ford and Peter Sheppard Skærved and Tom Spooner and Peter St. John and Jo Stockham

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Synopsis: Walking Cities: London (second edition) brings together a new interdisciplinary field of artists, writers, architects, musicians, human geographers and philosophers to consider how a city walk informs and triggers new processes of making, thinking, researching and communicating. In particular, the book examines how the city contains narratives, knowledge and contested materialities that are best accessed through the act of walking. The varied contributions take the form of short stories, illustrated essays, personal reflections and accounts of walks both real and fictional. While artist and RCA tutor Rut Blees Luxemburg and philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy recount a nocturnal journey from Shoreditch to the City of London; architect Peter St John of the practice Caruso St John offers a detailed and personal reflection on the Holloway Road; and architect and author Douglas Murphy examines what he calls London’s ‘more politically charged locations’ in his account of a solitary walk through an area of South London. Ultimately, Walking Cities: London seeks to understand the wider significance of changing geographies to generate critical questions and creative perspectives for navigating the social and political impact of rapid urban change.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781000072013
Related ISBNs:: 9780367809072, 9780367407896, 9780367407896, 9780367407919, 9780367407919
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 06/02/20
Copyrighted By:: Taylor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Jaspar Joseph-Lester
Edited by:: Simon King
Edited by:: Amy Blier-Carruthers
Edited by:: Roberto Bottazzi