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Philosophical Streets: New Approaches to Urbanism

Dennis Crow, editor

Library of Congress Catalog Number NA 9095.P48

180 pages

photos and illustrations

Publication date November 1, 1990

Library binding $28.95 ISBN 0-944624-08-1 or ISBN-13 9780944624081

Paperback $14.95 ISBN 0-944624-09-X or ISBN-13 9780944624098

In this collection of essays and photographs, architects, city planners, and social theorists apply the poststructuralism of Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, de Man, Barthes, and Frankfurt School theory to the problems of cities. These insights challenge urban scholars to produce new ways of thinking about urbanism and making cities readable.

“As theory moves beyond literary and visual texts to encompass the lived and built environment, it promises to change the way we think about urban space. Crow’s thought-fully assembled collection provides an indispensable guide to this challenging crossroads.”

— Grant Kester, Afterimage.

“The authors of this collection seek to strengthen what Dennis Crow describes ambitiously as the ‘new geography’ of urban disciplines. . . . It is not simply one more intellectual fad. It is connected to the street by a circle of theorists who . . . are familiar with the ‘nuts and bolts’ of practice and are eager to allow the street into the academy to address ‘real conflicts of gender, race, urban violence, wage discrimination, police brutality, and the international division of labor.’”

— Seymour J. Mandelbaum, APA Journal.

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