Providing a compelling analysis of debates in and about the modern city, this book draws upon architecture, history, literary studies, new media and sociology to explore the multiple connections between location, speech and the emerging modern metropolis. It concludes by reflecting on public speaking in the construction of the virtual city.

JANET STEWART directs the Visual Culture Masters Programme at the University of Aberdeen, UK, where she also teaches Comparative Literature and German, and contributes to the Centre for Modern Thought. She is the author of the acclaimed monographFashioning Vienna: Adolf Loos's Cultural Criticism.

List of Figures Introduction: Public Speaking in the Modern City Look Who's Talking Architects and the Urban Public Appearing in Public Locating the Voices Epilogue: Public Speaking and the City of the Future Notes Bibliography