Martin Zerlang

Gebundenes Buch

Writing the City Square

On the History and the Histories of City Squares

Beschreibung

This is an encyclopaedic book combining an overview of the history of city squares with analytical examples in literature. It will interest researchers, students, architects, urban planners, and readers with an interest in urban culture, architecture, history, lit and cultural studies.

Autor

Martin Zerlang is a full professor of literature and modern culture at the University of Copenhagen. During the last 15 years, he - together with architects and other urbanists - has participated in a number of architectural competitions and taken first prize in three of these. He has edited a collection of essays on Representing London, and has published articles in English on the Tivoli Gardens, the New York World Exposition 1853, and Israels Plads, a city square in Copenhagen. He has published several books on urban culture and urban literature, among these Zoom København (2017) and books on the bicycle (2018), the car (2021), and the train (2023) in Danish culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 546g
• ISBN-13: 9781032372006
• ISBN-10: 1032372001
• Artikelnr.: 67261752