Subterranean Cities: The World Beneath Paris and London, 1800-1945
Subterranean Cities: The World Beneath Paris and London, 1800-1945
$24.95
Pike, David L.
Pap. Ithaca, 2005
Book ID: 68176
Illustrated with photographs, movie stills, prints, engravings, paintings, cartoons, maps and drawings of actual and imagined urban spaces, Subterranean Cities documents the emergence of a novel space in the subterranean obsessions and anxieties within nineteenth-century urban culture. Chapters on the subways, sewers and cemeteries of Paris and London provide a detailed analysis of these competing centers of urban modernity. A concluding chapter considers the enduring influence of these spaces on urban culture at the turn of the twenty-first century.
368 pp., 125 halftone illus.
