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Urban knowledge through popular culture. Some reflections on everyday encounters with the melodramatic city
I suspect that it is an obvious observation, but some time ago it occurred to me that a good deal of what I know about cities is a product of the cultural resources that I have consumed over the years. Various TV shows, musical works, films, books and the like have contributed to an accumulated general and sometimes more locally specific knowledge about cities.
Urban knowledge through popular culture. Some reflections on everyday encounters with the melodramatic city
I suspect that it is an obvious observation, but some time ago it occurred to me that a good deal of what I know about cities is a product of the cultural resources that I have consumed over the years. Various TV shows, musical works, films, books and the like have contributed to an accumulated general and sometimes more locally specific knowledge about cities.
Urban knowledge through popular culture. Some reflections on everyday encounters with the melodramatic city
David Beer (author)
2011
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