Books by Steve Pile

Mapping key co-ordinates of meaning, identity and power across sites of body and city, the author explores a wide range of critical thinking including Lefebvre and Freud and analyses the dialectic between the individual and the external.

Drawing inspiration from the work of Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Georg Simmel, this book explores the dream-like and ghost-like experiences of the city, best described as phantasmagorias. These phantasmagorias, while commonplace, are far from self-evident. Real Cities explains how the phantasmagorias of modern city life are experienced and produced.