The Routledge companion to urban imaginaries
The Routledge companion to urban imaginaries
Bok · Engelsk · 2019
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| Omfang | xiv, 465 sider ;
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| Opplysninger | Introduction -- Part I: Eco and resilient -- Thirsty cities -- Rapid adaptation and mitigation planning -- Urban nature and the ecological imaginary -- Litter and the urban imaginary -- IHM-agining sustainability -- Formal encounters in two tales of toxicity -- Part II: Smart and digital -- Smart urban -- The origin of the smart city imaginary -- Construction performance -- Authoritarianism and the transparent smart city -- Digital urban imaginaries -- Urban exposure -- Every breath you take -- Part III: Connected and consuming -- Imagining the open city -- Beyond east-meets-west -- Toward a photographic urbanism? -- Macau's materialist milieu -- "Like diamonds in the sky" -- The city on the highway, revisited -- Uneven and divided -- Brutalism, ruins, and the urban imaginary of gentrification -- The end of the time of the city? -- Chicano Park's urban imaginary -- Arts districts and the reimagining of neighborhood through arts and culture-based development -- Jia Zhangke's cinematic vision of urban dystopia in contemporary China -- ICONi©Cities -- Imagining the entitled middle-class self in the global city -- Part V: Speculative and transformative -- Urban imaginaries and the palimpsest of the future -- Emergent imaginaries -- Queer urban imaginaries -- Crafted imagination -- Urban space and the posthuman imaginary.. - "The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries delves into examples of urban imaginaries across multiple media and geographies: from new visions of smart, eco, and resilient cities to urban dystopias in popular culture; from architectural renderings of starchitecture and luxury living to performative activism for new spatial justice; and from speculative experiments in urban planning, fiction, and photography to augmented urban realities in crowd-mapping and mobile apps. The volume brings various global perspectives together and into close dialogue to offer a broad, interdisciplinary, and critical overview of the current state of research on urban imaginaries. Questioning the politics of urban imagination, the companion gives particular attention to the role that urban imaginaries play in shaping the future of urban societies, communities, and built environments. Throughout the companion, issues of power, resistance, and uneven geographical development remain central. Adopting a transnational perspective, the volume challenges research on urban imaginaries from the perspective of globalization and postcolonial studies, inviting critical reconsiderations of urbanism in its diverse current forms and definitions. In the process, the companion explores issues of Western-centrism in urban research and design, and accommodates current attempts to radically rethink urban form and experience."
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| ISBN | 9780367733049. - 9781138058880
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