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Title:

London's urban landscape : another way of telling / edited by Christopher Tilley.

Publisher:

UCL Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xxiii, 431 pages : color illustrations, color maps, portraits (some color) ; 24 cm

Subject:

Sociology, Urban--London.--London.
Architecture, Domestic--London.--London.
Public spaces--London.--London.

Other Authors:

Tilley, Christopher Y., editor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

From pollution to purity : the transformation of graffiti and street art in London (2005-17) / Rafael Schacter. Part 2. The public sphere. Change and continuity in a central London street / Ilaria Pulini -- Towards a phenomenology of the concrete megastructure; space and perception at the Brunswick Centre, London / Clare Melhuish -- Isolation : a walk through a London estate / Dave Yates -- The making of a suburb / David Jeevendramillai -- The linear village : experience of continuous cruising on the London waterways / Titika Malkogeorgou. Part 2. The public sphere. "We're all mad down here" : liminality and the carnivalesque in Smithfield Meat Market / Caroline Wilson -- Observation and selection : objects and meaning in the Bermondsey Antiques Market / Dave Yates -- Rank and file on Harrington Road : rhythmanalysis : stories of place and the place of stories / Alex Young -- Holland Park: an elite London landscape / Christopher Tilley -- From pollution to purity : the transformation of graffiti and street art in London (2005-17) / Rafael Schacter.

Summary:

The first major study of a global city to adopt a materialist perspective and stress the significance of place and the built environment to the urban landscape. Inspired by phenomenological thinking, the book presents fine-grained ethnographies of the practices of everyday life in London. In doing so, it offers a unique perspective on the city that integrates ethnographies of daily life with an analysis of material culture. The first part of the book considers the residential sphere of urban life, discussing in detailed case studies ordinary residential streets, housing estates, suburbs, and London's mobile "linear village" of houseboats. The second part of the book analyzes the public sphere, including ethnographies of markets, a park, the social rhythms of a taxi rank, and graffiti and street art. This book returns us to the everyday lives of people and the manner in which they understand their lives. The embodied experience of the city is invoked in the descriptions of entangled relationships between people and places and the paths of movement between them.

ISBN:

9781787355590
1787355594
1787355608
9781787355606

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1102007258

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)