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23 produkter
Aesthetics of Gentrification
Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City
Av Christoph Lindner, Gerard Sandoval
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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Gentrification is reshaping cities worldwide, resulting in seductive spaces and exclusive communities that aspire to innovation, creativity, sustainability, and technological sophistication. Gentrification is also contributing to growing social-spatial division and urban inequality and precarity. …
From City Space to Cyberspace
Art, Squatting, and Internet Culture in the Netherlands
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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The narrative of the birth of internet culture often focuses on the achievements of American entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, but there is an alternative history of internet pioneers in Europe who developed their own model of network culture in the early 1990s. Drawing from their experiences in the …
Media and Mapping Practices in the Middle East and North Africa
Producing Space
Av Alena Strohmaier, Angela Krewani
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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A few months into the popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in 2009/10, the promises of social media, including its ability to influence a participatory governance model, grassroots civic engagement, new social dynamics, inclusive societies and new opportunities for …
Seeing the City Digitally
Processing Urban Space and Time
Av Gillian Rose
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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This book explores what’s happening to ways of seeing urban spaces in the contemporary moment, when so many of the technologies through which cities are visualised are digital. Cities have always been pictured, in many media and for many different purposes. This edited collection explores how that …
Permanence of Temporary Urbanism
Normalising Precarity in Austerity London
Av Mara Ferreri
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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Temporary urbanism has become a distinctive feature of urban life after the 2008 global financial crisis. This book offers a critical exploration of its emergence and establishment as a seductive discourse and as an entangled field of practice encompassing architecture, visual and performative …
Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin
Framing the Asynchronous City, 1957-2012
Av Simon Ward
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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As sites of continual change and transformation, cities are fundamentally forgetful places. Yet at the same time, urban areas are also homes to museums and archives that collect and exhibit the past-a key cultural, political, and economic activity. This book looks at that paradox through the …
Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces
Cultural Encounters After Dusk
Av Sara Brandellero, Kamilia Krakowska Rodrigues m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
706 kr
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Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces: Cultural Encounters after Dusk captures the multifarious nature of the urban night and how it is lived, structured, and reflected upon in diverse cultural and artistic expressions. The volume acknowledges the urban night as an often-overlooked key dimension …
Visual Culture of Post-Industrial Europe
Av Frances Guerin, Magda Szczesniak
Häftad, 2025
727 kr
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Visual Culture of Post-Industrial Europe investigates visual cultural projects in Europe from the 1970s onwards in response to industrial closures, resultant unemployment, diminished social services and shattered identities. Typically, art and visual cultural creations at one-time thriving European …
Visualizing the Street
New Practices of Documenting, Navigating and Imagining the City
Av Pedram Dibazar, Judith Naeff
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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From user-generated images of streets to professional architectural renderings, and from digital maps and drone footages to representations of invisible digital ecologies, this collection of essays analyses the emergent practices of visualizing the street. Today, advancements in digital …
Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces
Cultural Encounters After Dusk
Av Sara Brandellero, Kamilia Krakowska Rodrigues m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1827 kr
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Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces: Cultural Encounters after Dusk captures the multifarious nature of the urban night and how it is lived, structured, and reflected upon in diverse cultural and artistic expressions.
Visual Culture of Post-Industrial Europe
Av Frances Guerin, Magda Szczesniak
Inbunden, 2024
2586 kr
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Visual Culture of Post-Industrial Europe investigates visual cultural projects in Europe from the 1970s onwards in response to industrial closures, resultant unemployment, diminished social services and shattered identities.
Amsterdam Diaries, Life Writing and Identity
Urban Lives
Av Laura Hasselt, Marleen Rensen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2751 kr
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This volume invites readers to rediscover Amsterdam through the intimate lens of its inhabitants. Amsterdam Diaries, Life Writing and Identity offers a rich and layered portrayal of the city through the self-narratives of ‘ordinary’ individuals from the eighteenth century to the present.
Spectacle and the City
Chinese Urbanities in Art and Popular Culture
Av Jeroen de Kloet, Lena Scheen
Häftad, 2013
1241 kr
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China is urbanizing at an unprecedented speed. Filmmakers, artists, musicians, and writers all try to come to terms with the changes of their city. How is the Chinese city-as-spectacle, visualised and thus imagined and reimagined, if not contested, in art and popular culture? What are the possible …
Cinema of Urban Crisis
Seventies Film and the Reinvention of the City
Häftad, 2014
1172 kr
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The Cinema of Urban Crisis explores the relationships between cinema and urban crises in the United States and Europe in the 1970s.
Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin
Framing the Asynchronous City, 1957-2012
Av Simon Ward
Inbunden, 2016
2264 kr
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A case study of Berlin to see how the city has responded to challenges to memory created by rapid changes in politics, economics, society, and the built environment, ultimately arguing that the recovery of the experience of time is central to the practices of an emergent memory culture in the …
Visualizing the Street
New Practices of Documenting, Navigating and Imagining the City
Av Pedram Dibazar, Judith Naeff
Inbunden, 2018
2133 kr
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Visualizing the Street investigates the social and cultural significance of new developments at the intersection of visual culture and urban space.
Permanence of Temporary Urbanism
Normalising Precarity in Austerity London
Av Mara Ferreri
Inbunden, 2021
2133 kr
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This book offers a critical exploration of the emergence and establishment of temporary urbanism, as a seductive discourse and as an entangled field of practice encompassing architecture, visual and performative arts, urban regeneration policies and planning.
Media and Mapping Practices in the Middle East and North Africa
Producing Space
Av Alena Strohmaier, Angela Krewani
Inbunden, 2021
2133 kr
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he overall focus of this book is accordingly not so much on the role of new technologies and social networks as it is on how media and mapping practices expand the very notion of cultural engagement, political activism, popular protest and social participation.
Gentrification and the Media
Building and Propagating Discourses on Exclusive Urban Change
Av Stéphane Sadoux, Marie-Pierre Vincent m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2133 kr
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This collection of case studies focuses on a largely unexplored topic that no book has yet investigated gentrification and the media. There is an emphasis on the theoretical and methodological issues raised when media sources are used to study gentrification by non-media specialists who primarily …
Aesthetics of Gentrification
Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City
Av Christoph Lindner, Gerard Sandoval
Inbunden, 2021
2197 kr
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The book brings together a unique and diverse group of global scholars/researchers to reframe gentrification debates from a comparative, transnational, and interdisciplinary perspective.
From City Space to Cyberspace
Art, Squatting, and Internet Culture in the Netherlands
Inbunden, 2021
2133 kr
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This book is about how in the Dutch scene, the early internet was intimately tied to the aesthetics and politics of squatting. Untethered from profit motives, these artists and activists aimed to create a decentralized tool that would democratize culture and promote open and free exchange of …
Transformational Participatory Urbanism
Making Do as a Spatial Practice
Av Liska Chan, Elizabeth Stapleton
Inbunden, 2026
2586 kr
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Transformational Participatory Urbanism explores making do as a critical spatial practice at the intersection of spatial justice and creative geography. Through cases from Hong Kong’s Lennon Walls and San Francisco Bay mudflats to containerbased sanitation in Haiti and Toronto’s strip mall parking …
Seeing the City Digitally
Processing Urban Space and Time
Av Gillian Rose
Inbunden, 2022
2133 kr
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Cities have always been pictured, in many media and for many different purposes. This edited collection explores how that picturing is changing in an era of digital visual culture.
