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Introduction
uCitiesaremagicalplaces,howevertheirmagicisnotevenlydistributed”
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writesChrisJenksinhisgeneralintroductiontoUrbanCulture:Critical
ConceptsinLiteraryandCulturalStudies.Asmuchasweagreewith
Jenks)swords,webelievethatcities,firstandforemost,areamazing
spaces,andthisbelieffindsreflectioninthearticlesgatheredinthe
presentvolume.Temagicofthecities,togetherwiththemeandrous
urbanstructureandthejourneythroughtheurbanlandscapearethe
interweavingaspectsdiscussedinthisbook.Tepictureofthecitythat
emergesfromthearticlescontainedinUrbanAmazementisoneofan
intricatestructure,involvinganindividualłatraveller,aninhabitant,
awriterorasimpleobserverłintoanetworkofimagesthatisnever
constantorstable,yetalwaysamazingonewithitscomplexity.Tenum-
berand,mostofall,thediversityofthemesdiscussedintheconsecutive
studiesseemtocorrespondtothemultiplicityofimpressionsthatthe
urbanlandscapeappearstoexertonthesubjectsexaminedinthepre-
sentedtexts.Moreover,justlikethestreetsofthecityconstantlyintersect,
assomeofthearticlesinthevolumeillustrate,thepresentedtextstend
toconvergeatmanyrecurrentaspects,suchasthecity)slabyrinthine
structure,anxietywhichtheauthorsseeasconnectedwiththeimpen-
etrabilityofurbanlandscape,andtheoverwhelmingsenseofamazement
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ChrisJenks,GeneralintroductiontoUrbanCulture:CriticalConceptsin
LiteraryandCulturalStudies(NewYork:Routledge,2014),1.
