Urban Enigmas

Urban Enigmas
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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages : 295
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ISBN-10 : 9780773577077
ISBN-13 : 0773577076
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Book Synopsis Urban Enigmas by : Johanne Sloan

Download or read book Urban Enigmas written by Johanne Sloan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2007-02-12 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practice of comparison is implicit in every act of imagining, representing, and studying urban experience. Urban Enigmas contributes to recent interdisciplinary interest in cities by introducing comparison as a key methodology for urban cultural analysis.


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