Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
Questioning Urban Modernity
Modernity has since long formed a key concept in attempts to capture what is distinctive about city life. It has been constitutive of the way in which western cities have been designed, described and marketed since the nineteenth century, and it has formed a focal point around which scholars, writers and poets, filmmakers, architects, urban planners, travelers and many others have been articulating their visions of cities. By the turn-of-the-century, the concept of modernity also started to inform a critical understanding of urban space and culture, yielding insights into class relations, commodity culture and the alienated mental state of the urban dweller in western metropolises such as Paris and Berlin.
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Film & Architecture 