Soft City

by Jonathan Raban

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Author(s)

Jonathan Raban

Publisher, year

London : Picador, 2008

Scope

292 p., 20 cm.

ISBN

9780330456494

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How is it that the noisy, jostling, overwhelming metropolis leaves us at once so energized and so fragile? In Soft City the author seeks to find out. According to the Sunday Telegraph this book is a psychological handbook for urban survival.

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Location

Cultural approach to (urban) space

Extra themes

Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;

Remarks

first published 1974 by Hamish Hamilton