Photography and the Non-Place The Cultural Erasure of the City /

• Main Author: Brogden, Jim (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Photography.; Urban planning.; City planning.; Architecture.; Historiography.; Urbanism.; Architectural History and Theory.; Memory Studies.

This book presents a critical and aesthetic defence of "non-place" as an act of cultural reclamation. Through the restorative properties of photography, it re-conceptualises the cultural significance of non-place. The non-place is often referred to as "wasteland", and is usually...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Walking as a Decisive Moment
• 3. Representations of the Urban Landscape
• 4. Anthropological Encounters in Non-Place
• 5. The Valedictory Landscape.