02513nam a22003617a 4500 33897 BD-DhAAL 20211121100432.0 181024t19921991enga|||| b||| 001 0 eng d 39551 39551 9780520078642 0520078500 0520078640 BD-DhAAL 305.4091732 Wilson, Elizabeth 28622 The sphinx in the city : urban life, the control of disorder, and women / Elizabeth Wilson Berkeley : University of California Press, 1992. 191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Originally published: London : Virago Press, 1991. Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-182) and index. Into the labyrinth -- From Kitsch City to the city sublime -- Cesspool city : London -- The city of the floating world : Paris -- Cities of the American dream -- Architecture and consciousness in central Europe -- The lost metropolis -- World cities -- Beyond good and evil. "Elizabeth Wilson's elegant, provocative, and scholarly study uses fiction, essays, film, and art, as well as history and sociology, to look at some of the world's greatest cities-London, Paris, Moscow, New York, Chicago, Lusaka, and Sao Paulo-and presents a powerful critique of utopian planning, anti-urbanism, postmodernism, and traditional architecture. For women the city offers freedom, including sexual freedom, but also new dangers. Planners and reformers have repeatedly attempted to regulate women-and the working class and ethnic minorities-by means of grandiose, utopian plans, nearly destroying the richness of urban culture. City centers have become uninhabited business districts, the countryside suburbanized. There is danger without pleasure, consumerism without choice, safety without stimulation. What is needed is a new understanding of city life and Wilson gives us an intriguing introduction to what this might be." ARC Trim Education 33897 City and town life. 28638 Urban women. 28639 City planning. 28640 Cities and towns. 28641 Architecture. 42870 Ayesha Abed Library General Stacks ddc BK 0 0 ddc 0 305_409173200000000_WIL 0 64522 BRACUL BRACUL GEN 2018-10-22 Trim Education 2715.00 1 1 305.4091732 WIL 3010033897 2025-06-02 2025-05-13 1 2715.00 2018-10-22 BK