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Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Editing Award 2016 Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor? Performance and the City queries the role theatre and performance play in u...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Hopkins, D. J. (Editor), Orr, Shelley (Editor), Solga, Kim (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Series:Performance interventions.
Subjects:
Social Sciences.
Environment, general.
Gender Studies.
Performing Arts.
Theatre History.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Adaptation (Biology)
Ecology.
Euthenics.
Gender expression.
Gender identity.
Nature and nurture.
Performing arts.
Sex (Psychology)
Social sciences.
Sociology.
Theater > History.
Theater.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Editing Award 2016 Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor? Performance and the City queries the role theatre and performance play in urban policy, architecture, and civic history, while also exploring their important place in the memories created in the wake of urban trauma.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (XIV, 269 pages)
ISBN:9780230305212
DOI:10.1007/978-0-230-30521-2