Political Science City Planning & Urban Development
Imaginative Structure of the City
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2003
- Category
- City Planning & Urban Development
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- ISBN
- 9780773571037
- Publish Date
- May 2003
- List Price
- $55.00
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Description
Blum's distinctive form of theoretical inquiry pushes the reader to move beyond conventional ways of thinking about familiar urban issues in answering such fundamental questions as, How does a city exist? How do its inhabitants define their relationship to it? Who is entitled to speak for it? What is its symbolic nature? In what way does the city function as a focus of attempts to resolve social problems such as alienation, participation, and community? In what ways do night and nighttime affect our relationship to it? How is it possible to speak of a city as both exciting and alienating?
About the author
Noted sociologist Alan Blum's studies are sensitive to the interplay of words, meanings, and thought, and all their dimensions in human inquiry. Through events and workshops in London, New York, Montreal, Italy, and Greece, Blum has sought to create communities of interest oriented to collaborative research focusing on this question. He lives in Toronto.
