Noir Urbanisms – Dystopic Images of the Modern City (Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University) - Softcover

Prakash, Gyan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691146446 ISBN 13: 9780691146447

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2010

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Review:

"This collection of essays is a welcome addition to urban cultural studies. By bridging the history of dystopian imaginings and urban social and cultural history, it opens up new territory for interdisciplinary discussion."--Jordan Sand, Georgetown University

"This is an exciting collection ranging across an impressive disciplinary span, including not only history and film studies but also anthropology, geography, and modern languages. The volume combines scholarly rigor with political and social engagement, and is full of eloquence and insight. It speaks to researchers across the arts, humanities, and social sciences who are concerned with the place of urban spaces in the dystopic visions of modernity."--Jackie Stacey, University of Manchester

"Noir Urbanisms deserves to be widely read and debated. In describing why inequalities or disasters have occurred, this becomes a lesson for the architects and urban designers master-planning cities of the future."---Esme Fieldhouse, Blueprint Magazine

About the Author:

Gyan Prakash is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. His books include "Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India", and "The Spaces of the Modern City: Imaginaries, Politics, and Everyday Life" (both Princeton).

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0691146446
• ISBN 13: 9780691146447
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288