First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 2004. Walter Benjamin famously defined modernity as “the world dominated by its phantasmagorias”. The chapters in this book focus on one

Five Faces of Modernity is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so:

The industrialization of the nineteenth-century European city facilitated developing conceptions of the model city, and allowed for large scale urban transforma

Mobility is a basic principle of modernity besides others like individuality, rationality, equality and globality. Taking its cue from this concept, this book p