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Landscapes of Music in Istanbul – A Cultural Politics of Place and Exclusion
Av Alex G. Papadopoulos, Asli Duru m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
528 kr
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Everyday articulations of music, place, urban politics, and inclusion/exclusion are powerfully present in Istanbul. This volume analyzes landscapes of music, community, and exclusion across a century and a half.An interdisciplinary group of scholars and artists presents four case studies: the …
Berlin Reader
A Compendium on Urban Change and Activism
Av Matthias Bernt, Britta Grell m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
461 kr
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By drawing together widely dispersed yet central writings, the Berlin Reader is an essential resource for everyone interested in urban development in one of the most interesting and important metropolises in Europe. It provides scholars as well as students, journalists and visitors with an overview …
Cairo: Images of Transition
Perspectives on Visuality in Egypt, 2011-2013
Häftad, 2013
471 kr
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The Egyptian revolution of 2011 has significantly changed the relationship between citizens, public space, and visual expression. "Cairo: Images of Transition" traces these developments and their effects on political communication, urban space, and cultural production. The book is the first …
Enterprising Migrants in Berlin
Av Baris Ülker
Häftad, 2021
590 kr
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How has »ethnic entrepreneurship« emerged and developed since the late eighties in Berlin? In his study, Baris Ülker answers this question by relying on the experiences of immigrants from Turkey. Most academic studies on »ethnic entrepreneurship« have focused either on the »most unitary« structure …
Urban Transformations in the U.S.A.
Spaces, Communities, Representations
Häftad, 2016
603 kr
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How did American cities change throughout the 20th and early 21st century? This timely publication integrates research from American Literary and Cultural Studies, Urban Studies and History. The essays range from negotiations of the »ethnic city« in US literature and media, to studies of recent …
Urban Nomads Building Shanghai
Migrant Workers and the Construction Process
Av Ulrike Bronner, Ulrike Bronner m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
457 kr
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This book takes a close look at the interrelated phenomena of international business migrants and rural migrant workers in Shanghai. Through separate case studies it observes them in parallel and sheds light on the spatial implications of both groups' migrant status. The authors' uncovering of …
Squatting in Rio de Janeiro
Constructing Citizenship and Gender from Below
Av Bea Wittger
Häftad, 2017
584 kr
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The Brazilian Constitution provides a remarkable set of social rights, including the right to housing. Despite this fact, struggles for decent living conditions have become key issues in the daily urban lives of many people in Brazil. Contesting the differentiated access to housing, social …
Urban Planning and Everyday Urbanisation
A Case Study on Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
Häftad, 2017
590 kr
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Urbanisation in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, poses challenges to urban living conditions. Despite large scale housing programmes from the side of the government, construction and settling processes have largely remained incremental. Nadine Appelhans focuses on the relation between statutory planning and …
Actors and Networks in the Megacity – A Literary Analysis of Urban Narratives
Av Prachi More
Häftad, 2021
410 kr
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This study is a concise introduction to Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory and its application in a literary analysis of urban narratives of the 21st century. We encounter well-known psycho-geographers such as Iain Sinclair and Sam Miller, and renowned authors, Patrick Neate and Suketu Mehta. …
Urban Curating – Care, Repair, Refuse, Resist
Av Elke Krasny
Häftad, 2021
447 kr
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How are art, architecture, critical research, and activism entangled with the politics of urban transformation under the regimes of modern capitalist colonialism and contemporary neoliberalism? Accelerated developments heighten classed, gendered, and radicalized urban injustices.Addressing these …
Urban Appropriation Strategies – Exploring Space–Making Practices in Contemporary European Cityscapes
Av Flavia Alice Mameli, Franziska Polleter m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
457 kr
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In the past years, the transiency of European city-making and dwelling has become increasingly hard to disregard. This urban flux calls for a methodological rethinking for those professionals, social and natural scientists, artists, and activists, with an interest in the processes of remaking and …
Art and Economics in the City – New Cultural Maps
Av Caterina Benincasa, Gianfranco Neri m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
507 kr
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Emerging forms of alternative economic frameworks are changing the structure of society, redefining the relationship between centre and periphery, and the social dynamics in the urban fabric. In this context, the arts can play a crucial role in formulating a concept of complex and plural …
Smart City - Kritische Perspektiven auf die Digitalisierung in Städten
Av Sybille Bauriedl, Anke Strüver
Häftad
330 kr
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Game of Urban Regeneration – Culture & Community in London 2012 and Berlin′s Mediaspree
Inbunden, 2021
1490 kr
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Who wins and who loses in urban regeneration? What are the mechanisms at play?Francesca Weber-Newth looks at two neighbourhoods that are adjacent to large-scale regeneration schemes: the 2012 Olympic park in London and the Mediaspree waterside development in Berlin. By analysing how urban …
Townscapes in Transition – Transformation and Reorganization of Italian Cities and Their Architecture in the Interwar Period
Av Carmen M. Enss, Luigi Monzo m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
448 kr
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How did urban Italy come to look the way it does today? This collection of essays assembles recent studies in architectural history and theory exploring the historical paradigms guiding architecture and landscape design between the world wars. The authors explore physical changes in townscapes and …
Cities of Entanglements – Social Life in Johannesburg and Maputo Through Ethnographic Comparison
Av Barbara Heer
Häftad, 2021
655 kr
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How do people live together in cities shaped by inequality? This comparative ethnography of two African cities, Maputo and Johannesburg, presents a new narrative about social life in cities often described as sharply divided. Based on the ethnography of entangled lives unfolding in a township and …
Urban Resilience in a Global Context – Actors, Narratives, and Temporalities
Av Dorothee Brantz, Avi Sharma m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
617 kr
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Urban Resilience is seen by many as a tool to mitigate harm in times of extreme social, political, financial, and environmental stress. Despite its widespread usage, however, resilience is used in different ways by policy makers, activists, academics, and practitioners. Some see it as a key to …
Redundant City – A Multi–Site Enquiry Into Urban Narratives of Conflict and Change
Häftad, 2021
841 kr
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Dynamic processes and conflicts are at the core of the urban condition. Against the background of continuous change in cities, concepts and assumptions about spatial transformations have to be constantly re-examined and revised. Norbert Kling explores the rich body of narrative knowledge in …
Zones of Tradition–Places of Identity – Cities and Their Heritage
Häftad, 2021
596 kr
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What is the heritage of our cities? Which are the monuments, places, and spaces in which it accumulates, and by which practices is it formed, handed down, appropriated? Gerhard Vinken takes the readers to twelve cities on three continents and analyses the diverse and contradictory heritage …
Thinking of Space Relationally – Critical Realism Beyond Relativism – A Multitude Study of the Artworld in Beijing
Av Xiaoxue Gao
Häftad, 2021
501 kr
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Since the relational turn, scholars have combated methodological universalism, nationalism, and individualism in researching social-spatial transformations. Yet, when leaving the gaps between the traveling and local epistemic assumptions unattended, engaging relational spatial theories in empirical …
Platformization of Urban Life
Towards a Technocapitalist Transformation of European Cities
Av Anke Struver, Sybille Bauriedl
Häftad, 2022
316 kr
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The increasing platformization of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care-services, housing, and mobility. This book addresses new modes of producing urban spaces and societies. …
Public Space in Transition
Co-production and Co-management of Privately Owned Public Space in Seoul and Berlin
Av Dahae Lee
Häftad, 2022
770 kr
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Teheran-ro in Seoul and Mediaspree area in Berlin are pristine examples for public spaces with a history of rapid change in the context of broader political and economic transitions. Dahae Lee shows that in such a transitional context, the public sector alone is incapable to provide and manage …
Arab Berlin
Dynamics of Transformation
Häftad, 2023
770 kr
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Berlin is increasingly emerging as a hub of Arab intellectual life in Europe. In this first study of Arab culture to zoom in on the thriving metropolis, the contributors shed light on the dynamics of transformation with Arabs as agents, subjects, and objects of change in the spheres of politics, …
Metropolitan Research
Methods and Approaches
Av Jens Martin Gurr, Rolf Parr m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
847 kr
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Metropolitan research requires multidisciplinary perspectives in order to do justice to the complexities of metropolitan regions. This volume provides a scholarly and accessible overview of key methods and approaches in metropolitan research from a uniquely broad range of disciplines including …
Wilhelmsburg is our home!
Racialized Residents on Urban Development and Social Mix Planning in a Hamburg Neighbourhood
Häftad, 2022
604 kr
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In a neighbourhood facing massive redevelopment, racialized residents speak about stigma, social mixing, and what the island community means to them. Based on rich interviews, photographs, and archival research, Julie Chamberlain rejects the usual silence in German urban studies around …
Catalytic Mega-Events
Tokyo 2020 and Planetary Urban Transformation
Av Filippo Bignami, Christian Dimmer m. fl.
Häftad, 2027
512 kr
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Mega events are accelerators of urban transformation with lasting effects on urban environments. In the spotlight of the spectacle these crucial factors are often ignored, deliberately underestimated or underreported. They pertain every aspect of urban living, making mega-events more than instances …
Norman M. Klein's »Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles«
An Updated Edition 20 Years Later
Av Norman M. Klein, Jens Martin Gurr
Häftad, 2023
521 kr
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In 2003, Norman M. Klein's docufable ?Bleeding Through? raised questions of urban aesthetics and memory as part of the multimedia documentary ?Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, 1920-1986.? Now, 20 years later, this important text is reissued along with several essays addressing its central …
Narrative in Urban Planning
A Practical Field Guide
Av Lieven Ameel, Jens Martin Gurr m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
617 kr
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What do planners need to know in order to use narrative approaches responsibly in their practice? This practical field guide makes insights from narrative research accessible to planners through a glossary of key concepts in the field of narrative in planning. What makes narratives coherent, …
Resonant Fabrics
Listening to Urban Worlds
Av Marvin Heine
Häftad, 2023
924 kr
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Soundscapes profoundly connect listeners to the places they inhabit and thereby reveal the vibrant and resonant fabrics that lie beneath the delineated spaces of visual representation. In Resonant Fabrics, Marvin Heine explores and celebrates the many-layered and ambiguously undulating sense- and …
Camp, Housing, and the City
Berlin's Migrant Camp Accommodation after the Long Summer of Migration
Inbunden, 2024
1885 kr
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In 2015 many camps were opened to accommodate newly arriving migrants in Berlin. Christian Sowa studies this form of accommodation. Moving beyond an exclusive focus on borders and migration, he argues that camp accommodation must be thought of and studied as part of the urban context and as a …
