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Literature and Technology
Major authors investigated include Chaucer, Blake, Romains, Pynchon, and Prigogine.
Images of the Street
Images of the Street captures the vitality, excitements and tensions of the street. Using examples from the U.K, India, Australia and North America the contributors draw on research in cultural geography, sociolgy, cultural studies and planning to explore the making and meaning of urban space. Among the themes examined are:1.the way streetscapes are shaped by interplay between politics, planning and local political economy 2.social differences of individuals experiences' of the street 3.how social identities are shaped and represented in fiction and film 4.the meaning and significance of streets as settings to play out social practices 5.how social life is regulated on the street, formerly by police and indirectly through architecture and urban design
French Modern
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the Present -- 1. The Crisis of Representations: From Man to Milieux -- 2. Modern Elements: Reasons and Histories -- 3. Experiments in Social Paternalism -- 4. New Elites: From the Moral to the Social -- 5. Milieux: Pathos and Pacification -- 6. From Moralism to Welfare -- 7. Modern French Urbanism -- 8. Specific Intellectuals: Perfecting the Instruments -- 9. Techno-Cosmopolitanism: Governing Morocco -- 10. Middling Modernism: The Socio-Technical Environment -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Passenger Conveyors
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The Politics Of Resentment
The establishment of the Third Republic in France in the 1870s swept the nobility from power and established republican government supported by the professional classes, the peasantry, and small businessmen. Paris shopkeepers at first allied themselves with this new republican order but then broke away from it, claiming it favored the rise of large department stores that threatened their livelihood. This work offers a broader interpretation of their protests within the context of general social and cultural developments, providing a colorful and convincing description and analysis of Parisian politics in this critical era of French history. Historians' previous explanations of shopkeeper dis...
American Architect
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