Nights in the Big City

Nights in the Big City
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Publisher : Reaktion Books
Total Pages : 362
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ISBN-10 : 186189015X
ISBN-13 : 9781861890153
Rating : 4/5 (153 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Nights in the Big City by : Joachim Schlör

Download or read book Nights in the Big City written by Joachim Schlör and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This elegantly written book describes the changes in the perception and experience of the night in three great European cities: Paris, Berlin and London. The lighting up of the European city by gas and electricity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought about a new relationship with the night, in respect of both work and pleasure. Nights in the Big City explores this new awareness of the city in all its ramifications. Joachim Schlor has spent his days sifting through countless police and church archives, and first-hand accounts, and his nights exploring the highways and byways of these three great capitals. Illustrated with haunting and evocative photographs by, among others, Brandt and Kertesz, and filled with contemporary literary references, Nights in the Big City has already been acclaimed in the German press as a milestone in the cultural history of the city. " Schlor] is erudite, and his literary style is alluring." Architect's Journal"


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