The Sphinx in the City – Urban Life, the Control of Disorder, and Women (University of California Press, 1991) by Elizabeth Wilson studies global metropolis such as London or Chicago through fiction, essays, film, arts, history, and sociology.
City centers have become uninhabited business discrigts; the countryside, homogeneous suburbs. There is danger without pleasure, consumerism without choice, safety without stimulation. In the face of ‘developers’ who have almost destroyed city life, Elizabeth Wilson offers an intriguing new understanding of the urban experience, both as it is now and as it might be in the future.
– Elizabeth Wilson, The Sphinx in the City – Urban Life, the Control of Disorder, and Women (University of California Press, 1991), excerpt from the book description
The text is in English. The book has no illustrations.
Our copy in stock is in nice condition. The pages are clean, no markings except for some underlines and an inscription on the first flyleaf. The glueing of the binding is fine. The covers show some small traces of shelf wear and use.
