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London underground : a cultural geography

Ashford, David, Dr

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Subject: London Underground Limited. / Cultural geography England London. / Subways England London History. / London (England) Civilization.
• ISBN: 9781846318597, 1846318599

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
GF552.L66 A84 2013	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE