Embodying Cape Town : Engaging the City through its Built Edges and Contact Zones

• Main Author: Jackson, Shannon M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Ethnology > Africa.; Urban geography.; Urban planning.; City planning.; Sociology, Urban.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781137587114
• Physical Description: IX, 202 p. online resource.

This book examines the reciprocity that exists between the body and the urban built environment. It will draw on archival and ethnographic research as well as an interdisciplinary literature on cultural materialism, semiotics, and aesthetics to challenge dualist interpretations of four different poi...