London's Urban Landscape: Another Way of Telling

by Christopher Tilley (Editor)

Overview

London's Urban Landscape is the first major study of a global city to adopt a materialist perspective and stress the significance of place and the built environment to the urban landscape. Inspired by phenomenological thinking, it integrates fine-grained ethnographies of the practices of everyday life in London with analysis of material culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787355590
Publisher:	U C L Press, Limited
Publication date:	10/15/2019
Edition description:	1st Edition
Pages:	444
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Christopher Tilley is professor of anthropology at University College London. He has written and edited numerous books on archaeology, anthropology, and material culture studies.

Table of Contents

List of figures vii

List of tables xv

Notes on contributors xvii

Preface xxi

Introduction: Materialising the urban landscape Christopher Tilley 1

Part I The domestic and residential sphere

1 Change and continuity in a central London street Ilaria Pulini 67

2 Towards a phenomenology of the concrete megastructure: Space and perception at the Brunswick Centre, London Clare Melhuish 117

3 Isolation: A walk through a London estate Dave Yates 149

4 The making of a suburb David Jeevendrampillai 178

5 The linear village: Experience of continuous cruising on the London waterways Titika Malkogeorgou 204

Part II The public sphere

6 'We're all mad down here.' Liminality and the carnivalesque in Smithfield Meat Market Caroline Wilson 263

7 Observation and selection: Objects and meaning in the Bermondsey Antiques Market Dave Yates 301

8 Rank and file on Harrington Road. Rhythmanalysis: Stories of place and the place of stories Alex Young 325

9 Holland Park: An elite London landscape Christopher Tilley 353

10 From pollution to purity: The transformation of graffiti and street art in London (2005-17) Rafael Schacter 403

Index 426