| Description |
1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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data file rda |
| Note |
Includes index. |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 9, 2013). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 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 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. |
| Subject |
London Underground Limited.
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London Underground Limited. (OCoLC)fst00605833
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London (England) -- Civilization.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
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England -- London.
(OCoLC)fst01204271
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ashford, David. London underground : a cultural geography. Liverpool, England : Liverpool University Press, ©2013 xii, 209 pages 9781846318597 |
| ISBN |
9781781389317 (electronic bk.) |
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1781389314 (electronic bk.) |
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