Transforming Cities

Discourses of Urban Change. Edited by Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Nora Peßke and Eckart Voigts.

Today, the majority of people worldwide live in cities or metropolitan areas. The volume responds with a transdisciplinary approach to growing urbanisation and globalisation - climate change, energy change, secure jobs, affordable living, sustainable mobility, migration or demographic change. It brings together recent research in the areas of Urban and Media Studies, 19th- and 20th-century urban fiction and Victorian and neo-Victorian Studies. The contributors endeavor to compare various discourses of urban transformation - expansion, corruption, renewal, dereliction, adaptation - that have emerged in situations of rapid, uncontrolled change. With contributions by Vanessa Miriam Carlow, Julia Faisst, Susanne Gruß et al. 242 Seiten mit 15 Abb., broschiert (Anglistik & Englischunterricht; Band 85/Universitätsverlag Winter 2018) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear