The Vanishing map: A Journey From la to Tokyo to the Heart of Europe [Audiobook] download free by Stephen Barber
- Listen audiobook: The Vanishing map: A Journey From la to Tokyo to the Heart of Europe
- Author: Stephen Barber
- Release date: 2006/6/6
- Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Society and Social Sciences
- ISBN: 9781845205102
- Rating: 7.94 of 10
- Votes: 319
- Review by: Raphael Bland
- Review rating: 9.51 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/18
- Duration: 2H2M21S in 256 kbps (32 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-30
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, FLAC, MP3, WMA, Shorten, MPEG4 (compression AZW, RAR, ZIP, ACE)
- Total pages original book: 160
- Includes a PDF summary of 13 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 9M11S (2.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Stephen Barber takes the reader on an extraordinary journey from LA to Tokyo via Europe. He carries only a crumpled map in his pocket, a map that plots a horrifying past, a disappearing present and a future collapsing into banality. A virtual reality flight across this territory reveals the surfaces of things, a landscape made by war and technological advances. Coming back to earth and to his own body, Stephen Barber follows the map from city to city. He discovers how cities, once densely layered with a civilization's history of follies and obsessions, are increasingly oblivious places, accelerating the erasure of their own histories, forgetting themselves. Barber's journey becomes a profound meditation on the future of the city and the role of memory in our lives.Dazzlingly written, erudite and, by turns funny, elegiac and horrific, The Vanishing Map explores what cities were, are and will be. Deeper than this, it questions how memory - personal, urban, national and global memory - can survive.
- Other categories, genre or collection: General & World History, Guidebooks, Travel Writing, Popular Culture, European History, Architecture, Postwar 20th Century History, From C 1945 To C 2000
- Download servers: 4Shared, Uptobox, Dropbox, SandCage, BitShare, Google Drive, FreakShare. Compressed in AZW, RAR, ZIP, ACE
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 38.85 USD
- Dimensions: 134x189x12mm
- Weight: 280g
- Printed by: Berg Publishers
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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