London underground : a cultural geography / David Ashford.
Ashford, David, Dr., author.
2013
GF552.L66 A84 2013
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Title London underground : a cultural geography / David Ashford.
Author Ashford, David, Dr., author.
ISBN 9781846318597
1846318599
9781781387085 (electronic book)
Published Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations
Call Number GF552.L66 A84 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 942.1
Summary "This book provides a theoretical account of the evolution of an archetypal modern environment. The first to complete that slow process of estrangement from the natural topography initiated by the Industrial Revolution, the London Underground is shown to be what French anthropologist Marc Augé has termed non-lieu--a non-place, like a motorway, supermarket or airport lounge, compelled to interpret its relationship to the invisible landscape it traverses through the medium of signs and maps. Surveying an unusually wide variety of material, ranging from the Victorian triple-decker novel, to Modernist art and architecture, to pop music and graffiti, this cultural geography suggests that the Tube-network is a transitional form, linking the spaces of Victorian England to the virtual spaces of our contemporary consumer-capitalism."--Page 4 of cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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