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- Title
Reading Urban Ecology in George R. Stewart's The Years of the City.
- Authors
WAAGE, FRED
- Abstract
This article is an exploration of an imaginary, yet real, city of the past in whose ruins no archeological critic has yet dug: the Greek colonial city of Phrax, chronicled from its birth to its death in George R. Stewart's The Years of the City (1956), one of the most original, and least appreciated, urban novels of the 1950s. As with the city itself, the telling of the city's story is created by converging collective and individual experiences. As I will show in the following pages, the novel negotiates between two modes of conceiving "urban ecology" in the mid-twentieth century and is closely connected with post—World War Two concerns about the form historiography should take in a postwar world.
- Publication
Clio, 2009, Vol 38, Issue 3, p293
- ISSN
0884-2043
- Publication type
Academic Journal