Urban encounters

In contrast to Walter Benjamin, Henry Lefebvre, and other Europeans thinkers engages with the concept of the urban, American intellectuals tend to invision the modern city as a dystopia, their perception of urban life influenced by negative stereotypes and fictional depictions in popular culture. In this book the author challenges this fatalism by approaching the city as a vibrant, lives space. Combining a sofisticated critique of the urbant envionment with stricking, street levels imsges, Ligget reclaims the human experience of the city.