EAN: 9783825367497

TRANSFORMING CITIES ANGLISTIK & ENGLISCHUNTER...

Today  the majority of people worldwide live in cities or metropolitan areas. This 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. Fields
covered include the London Green Belt and ecocritical flânerie in New York  neo-Victorian
streetwalking in novels by Peter Ackroyd and Michel Faber  the global impact of urban
transformations on Dublin or Hong Kong  'slumming' in the TV series 'Maison Close'  'Ripper
Street' and 'Penny Dreadful' as well as Amsterdam's Red Light District and urban geographies of
entertainment in London  from the Crystal Palace to the Millennium Dome.

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