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Pathologies of modern space, empty space, urban anxiety, and the recovery of the public self, Kathryn Milun

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-309) and index

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Pathologies of modern space

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Kathryn Milun

empty space, urban anxiety, and the recovery of the public self

Preface: Empty space as a structure of feeling in the urban commons -- Introduction: Agoraphobia, a discovery mode for the study of empty space as a structure of feeling in the urban commons -- The disappearance of public space in psychiatric descriptions of agoraphobia : Dr. Westphal (1872) and Dr. Boyd (1991) -- The nineteenth-century urban commons as a spatial puzzle -- The nineteenth-century urban commons as a gendered puzzle -- The twentieth-century urban commons : the urban freeway -- The twentieth-century urban commons : the shopping center, laboratory of behaviorism -- The twentieth-century urban commons : neoliberal universes of nonrecognition -- Alternative treatments for the twenty-first-century urban commons : horror vacui, solvitur ambulando? -- Conclusion