Subterranean Cities by David L Pike
The underground has been a dominant image of modern life since the late eighteenth century. A site of crisis, fascination, and hidden truth, the underground is a space at once more immediate and more threatening than the ordinary world above. In...A triumphThe book is encyclopaedic in scope, never less than an absolute pleasure to read, and boasts a generous selection from the rich field of images related to the topic. The book will prove invaluable to anyone with an interest in the manifold topics it brings together, and is surely set to become a landmark in the history of urban modernity.
-- David Ashford * Modernism/modernity *What lies beneath us has fascinated humans for millennia. But as Pike observes in his new book, Subterranean Cities, it was 19th-century engineering—underground railways, drainage systems, burial groundsThat transformed the urban landscape into a physical and metaphorical definition of subterranean space.
-- Jennifer Howard * Chronicle of Higher Education *David Pike writes with great fluency. His knowledge of theorists—LeFebvre, Soja, Mary Douglas—relevant to a comparison of underground, subway, sewage and burial systems in London and Paris is wide-ranging. He is adept at juxtaposing new industrial districts on which these 'sinks of consumption' were so heavily dependent.
-- Bill Luckin * Urban History *David L. Pike is Professor of Literature at American University. He is the author of Passage through Hell: Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds, winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities, and Metropolis on the Styx: The Underworlds of Modern Urban Culture, 1800-2001, both from Cornell.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801472565 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801472563 |
| Title | Subterranean Cities |
| Author | David L Pike |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press |
| Year published | 2005-10-11 |
| Number of pages | 374 |
| Prizes | Winner of Finalist, 2006 Modernist Studies Association Book. |
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