Cities Interrupted: Visual Culture and Urban Space
Editat de Shirley Jordan, Christoph Lindneren Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 feb 2016
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781474224413
ISBN-10: 1474224415
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 50 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1474224415
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 50 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Opens debate across a number of current city and urban studies themes, such as the transition movement, the slow movement, resistance and protest, and changing urban environments
Notă biografică
Shirley Jordan is Professor of French Literature and Visual Culture at Queen Mary University of London, UK.Christoph Lindner is Professor of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Cuprins
ForewordAckbar Abbas (University of California-Irvine, USA)1. Visual Culture and Interruption in Global CitiesShirley Jordan (Queen Mary University of London, UK) and Christoph Lindner (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)PART 1 - CRISIS AND RUIN2. Why We Love 'Interruption': Urban Ruins, Food Trucks, and the Cult of Decay Richard J. Williams (University of Edinburgh, UK)3. Rescuing History from the City: Interruption and Urban Development in BeijingJeroen de Kloet (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)4. Interrupting New York: Slowness and the High LineChristoph Lindner (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)5. Sound, Memory, and Interruption: Ghosts of London's M11 Link RoadDavid Pinder (Roskilde University, Denmark)PART 2 - RESISTANCE AND RENEWAL6. Suburbia, Interrupted: Street Art and the Politics of Place in the Paris BanlieuesGillian Jein (Bangor University, UK)7. Looking at Digital Visualizations of Urban Redevelopment Projects: Dimming the Scintillating Glow of UnworkGillian Rose, Monica Degen, and Clare Melhuish (The Open University, UK)8. "Here We Are Now": Amsterdam's North-South Metro Line and the Emergence of a Networked PublicGinette Verstraete (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands)9. Pop-Up Shops as Interruptions in (Post-)Recessional LondonMara Ferreri (Queen Mary University of London, UK)PART 3 - BODIES AND SPACE10. Interruption Expanded: Urban Photography's Perspicacious ViewHugh Campbell (University College Dublin, Ireland)11. Buildering, Urban Interventions, and Public SculptureBill Marshall (University of Stirling, UK)12. Interrupting the StreetShirley Jordan (Queen Mary University of London, UK)BibliographyIndex
Recenzii
Cities Interrupted brings together researchers in architecture, geography, urban planning, photography and art to explore ... the subtle ways in which interruption repeatedly calls attention to the public/private dichotomy of city life.
A stellar cast of writers from across disciplines explore the moments when our speeded-up world is slowed or stopped. A fascinating and important collection of sharp, smart and engaging essays on urban interruptions in global cities from Amsterdam to Beijing, London to New York. Take some time. Read it.
Cities Interrupted brings together some of the best thinking about contemporary urbansim available. Each essay is a gem, but as an ensemble they make a cutting-edge critical intervention into urban theory. This is a book that will repay multiple readings over time.
A stellar cast of writers from across disciplines explore the moments when our speeded-up world is slowed or stopped. A fascinating and important collection of sharp, smart and engaging essays on urban interruptions in global cities from Amsterdam to Beijing, London to New York. Take some time. Read it.
Cities Interrupted brings together some of the best thinking about contemporary urbansim available. Each essay is a gem, but as an ensemble they make a cutting-edge critical intervention into urban theory. This is a book that will repay multiple readings over time.