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050			_aHT 133 .W55 2004
100			_aWilliams, Richard J., _eauthor
245		4	_aThe anxious city : _bEnglish urbanism in the late twentieth century / _cRichard J. Williams
260			_aAbingdon, Ox : _bRoutledge, _cc2004
300			_axii, 281 p. : _billustrations ; _c23 cm.
365			_bUSD44.22
520			_aIn the Western world, cities have arguably never been more anxious: practical anxieties about personal safety and metaphysical anxieties about the uncertain place of the city in culture are the small change of journalism and political debate. Cities have long been regarded as problems, in need of drastic solutions. In this context, the contemporary revival of city centres is remarkable. But in a culture that largely fears the urban, how can the contemporary city be imagined? How is it supposed to be used or inhabited? What does it mean? Taking England since WWII as its principal focus, this provocative and original book considers the Western city at a critical moment in its history.
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