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Imaginative Structure of the City

Alan Blum

出版	McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2003
主題	Architecture / CriticismBusiness & Economics / Development / GeneralPolitical Science / GeneralPolitical Science / Public Policy / City Planning & Urban DevelopmentSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialSocial Science / Sociology / Urban
ISBN	07735253949780773525399
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=BKF-CIIdFPcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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In The Imaginative Structure of the City Alan Blum explores the symbolic and imaginative nature of the city as a vital part of everyday life in modern civilization. He introduces the city as a community that must struggle to maintain its collective identity against typical problems – problems that threaten to fragment the city's sense of itself. 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?