The Life Of The City: Space, Humour, And The Experience Of Truth In Fin-De-Siècle Montmartre (Studies In Historical Geography)

The Life of the City is a bold and innovative reassessment of the early urban avant-garde movements that sought to re-imagine and reinvent the experiential life of the city. Constructing a ground-breaking theoretical analysis of the relationships between biological life, urban culture, and modern forms of biopolitical ?xperiential authority? Julian Brigstocke traces the failed attempts of Parisian radicals to turn the ?risis of authority?in late nineteenth century Paris into an opportunity to invent new forms of urban commons.

• • Author: Dr Julian Brigstocke
• • Publisher: Routledge
• • Publication Date: Jul 09, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 246 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1409448967
• • ISBN-13: 9781409448969