Tag: City

Free Download Dancing with the Modernist City: Metropolitan Dance Texts around 1900 by Wesley Lim
English | July 22, 2024 | ISBN: 0472133306 | 324 pages | EPUB | 1.33 Mb
As the 20th century dawned, authors, artists, and filmmakers flocked to cities like Paris and Berlin for a chance to experience a bustling urban life and engage with other artists and intellectuals. Among them were German-speaking authors and filmmakers such as Harry Graf Kessler, Rainer Maria Rilke, August Endell, Alfred Döblin, Else Lasker-Schüler, Segundo de Chomón, and the brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky. In their writing and artistic work from that period, they depicted the perpetual influx of stimuli caused by urban life-including hordes of pedestrians, bustling traffic, and a barrage of advertisements-as well as how these encounters repeatedly paralleled their experiences of watching early twentieth-century dance performances by Loïe Fuller, Ruth St. Denis, and Vaslav Nijinsky. The convergence these writers and filmmakers saw between the unexpected encounters during their urban strolls and experimental dance performances led to writings that interwove the two motifs.

Free Download Alexandra Seibel, "Visions of Vienna: Narrating the City in 1920s and 1930s Cinema "
English | ISBN: 9462981892 | 2017 | 260 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Vienna, with its stunning architecture and unforgettable streetscape, has long provided a backdrop for filmmakers. Visions of Vienna offers a close look at how directors such as Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Max Ophüls made use of the city, and how the nostalgic glorification of the Habsburg era can be seen as directly tied to crucial issues of modernity. Films set in Vienna, Alexandra Seibel shows, persistently articulate the experience of displacement due to emigration, changing gender relations and anti-feminism, class distinction, and anti-Semitism, themes that run counter to the ongoing mystification of Vienna as the incarnation of "waltz dreams" and schmaltz.

Free Download Untold Paris: The Secrets of the City of Light by John Baxter
English | June 25, 2024 | ISBN: 0711296588 | 208 pages | PDF | 8.86 Mb
Nobody knows the city of light like Paris resident and travel writer John Baxter – and nobody is able to write about its culture quite so intriguingly. Let him guide you around the Paris you’ve always wanted to know.

Free Download Jeroen van der Waal, "The Global City Debate Reconsidered: Economic Globalization in Contemporary Dutch Cities"
English | ISBN: 9089647600 | 2015 | 160 pages | PDF | 1123 KB
The idea of the "global city," which focuses on globalisation’s impact on the social, financial, and political reality of cities in advanced economies, has become widely influential in the decades since its introduction-and yet the major issues in the "global city debate" remain unresolved. This book provides a systematic overview of the debate and competing theoretical notions, as well as an argument for the need to test the framework’s empirical validity before the unresolved questions can be fruitfully addressed. By testing data from the Netherlands in the 1990s and 2000s, the author demonstrates the value of rigorous empirical scrutiny while offering fresh insights for the global city debate as a whole.

Free Download Not for Tourists Guide to New York City 2025 by Not For Tourists
English | September 3, 2024 | ISBN: 151078103X | 400 pages | MOBI | 91 Mb
With details on everything from the Empire State Building to Max Fish, this is the only guide a native or traveler needs to navigate New York’s neighborhoods and find the best restaurants, shopping, and more.

Free Download Daniel Mendelsohn, "Gender and the City in Euripides’ Political Plays"
English | 2003 | pages: 276 | ISBN: 0199249563, 0199278040 | PDF | 2,4 mb
The first full-length study of Children of Herakles and Suppliant Women to appear in fifty years, Gender and the City in Euripides’ Political Plays uses fresh insights into the Greek conception of gender and the Athenian ideology of civic identity to demonstrate at last the formal elegance and intellectual complexity of two works that are still dismissed as artistic failures within the poet’s oeuvre.

Free Download Duncan McDuie-Ra, "Borderland City in New India: Frontier to Gateway "
English | ISBN: 9089647589 | 2016 | 208 pages | PDF | 1064 KB
While India has been a popular subject of scholarly analysis in the past decade, the majority of that attention has been focused on its major cities. This volume instead explores contemporary urban life in a smaller city located in India’s Northeast borderland at a time of dramatic change, showing how this city has been profoundly affected by armed conflict, militarism, displacement, interethnic tensions, and the expansion of neoliberal capitalism.

Free Download City of Night Birds: A Novel by Juhea Kim
English | November 26, 2024 | ISBN: 0063394758 | True EPUB | 320 pages | 5.3 MB
A once-famous ballerina faces a final choice-to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever-in this incandescent novel of redemption and love

Free Download Moon Rome Walks: See the City Like a Local (Moon City Walks Travel Guide), 3rd Edition by Moon Travel Guides
English | November 19th, 2024 | ISBN: 9798886470901 | 152 pages | True EPUB | 44.77 MB
Enjoy a passeggiata through the vibrant streets and cobblestone alleyways of the Eternal City, and experience Rome like a local: on foot!

Free Download B. Painter, "Mussolini’s Rome: Rebuilding the Eternal City "
English | ISBN: 1403980020 | 2005 | 220 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
In 1922 the Fascist ‘March on Rome’ brought Benito Mussolini to power. He promised Italians that his fascist revolution would unite them as never before and make Italy a strong and respected nation internationally. In the next two decades, Mussolini set about rebuilding the city of Rome as the site and symbol of the new fascist Italy. Through an ambitious program of demolition and construction he sought to make Rome a modern capital of a nation and an empire worthy of Rome’s imperial past. Building the new Rome put people to work, ‘liberated’ ancient monuments, cleared slums, produced new "cities" for education, sports, and cinema, produced wide new streets, and provided the regime with a setting to showcase fascism’s dynamism, power, and greatness. Mussolini’s Rome thus embodied the movement, the man and the myth that made up fascist Italy.