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Migropolis: Venice, Atlas of a Global Situation

Migropolis: Venice, Atlas of a Global Situation

Migropolis: Venice, Atlas of a Global Situation

$195.00

Scheppe, Wolfgang. Migropolis: Venice, Atlas of a Global Situation

Hatje Cantz. 2009

Book ID: 83100

Venice, sited as it is at the junction of three migration corridors, emerges as a classic instance of the increasingly globalized city in which a decimated inner-city population meets armies of tourists and a parallel economy supported by illegal immigrants. Using fieldwork conducted in the Situationist psychogeography tradition, a map that cleverly branches out into visual essays, written essays, data maps and interviews, the globalized territory of Venice is microscopically dissected and defined as an urban metaphor; the city becoming an "atlas of a global situation."

2 vols, in slip cover. Cl.