Cities and urban cultures
In: Issues in cultural and media studies
In: Issues in cultural and media studies
In: Always learning
We live in a self-proclaimed Urban Age, where we celebrate the city as the source of economic prosperity, a nurturer of social and cultural diversity, and a place primed for democracy. We proclaim the city as the fertile ground from which progress will arise. Without cities, we tell ourselves, human civilization would falter and decay. In Cities in the Urban Age, Robert A. Beauregard argues that this line of thinking is not only hyperbolic--it is too celebratory by half. For Beauregard, the city is a cauldron for four haunting contradictions. First, cities are equally defined by both their wealth and their poverty. Second, cities are simultaneously environmentally destructive and yet promise sustainability. Third, cities encourage rule by political machines and oligarchies, even as they are essentially democratic and at least nominally open to all. And fourth, city life promotes tolerance among disparate groups, even as the friction among them often erupts into violence. Beauregard offers no simple solutions or proposed remedies for these contradictions; indeed, he doesn't necessarily hold that they need to be resolved, since they are generative of city life. Without these four tensions, cities wouldn't be cities. Rather, Beauregard argues that only by recognizing these ambiguities and contradictions can we even begin to understand our moral obligations, as well as the clearest paths toward equality, justice, and peace in urban settings.
In: Advances in civil and industrial engineering (ACIE) book series
"This publication is about urban life and the urbanizing process in the context of more aware people interacting with more aware technologies, contributing to understandings of the ambient turn in smart cities, learning cities, and future cities embracing rethinking of more sustainable and livable approaches to urban life in terms of research and practice"--
In: Advances in urban sustainability
In: Earthscan from Routledge
Theoretical overview -- Capital cities as innovators in sustainability policy and practice / Robert W. Orttung -- Capital cities and regions: a general comparative overview / Hal Wolman -- Indicators for measuring the performance of smart and sustainable capital cities / Stanislav E. Shmelev and Irina A. Shmeleva -- Case studies -- Moving the capital to promote sustainability innovations : analyzing Cairo's future plans / Sahar Attia and Costis Toregas -- Stockholm: where sustainability meets technology / Anna Helm & Nicole Forsberg with Christina Johannsen -- Using public procurement to promote sustainability in Copenhagen / Marta Andrecka and Alexandra Andhov -- Innovations in public participation for sustainability and resilience in Hanoi / Linda J. Yarr and Nguy?n Ngc Lý -- Delivering clean water in an African capital / Jennifer Lessick -- Phnom Penh, an unsustainable capital city / Anthony Gad Bigio -- Conclusion: missed opportunities / Robert Orttung.
The aim of the book is to examine the transformation of the city in the late 20th century and explore the ways in which city life is structured. The shift from modern-industrial to information/consumption-based 'post-modern' cities is traced through the text. The focus is not just on America and Europe but also explores cities in other parts of the world as city growth in the twenty first century will be predominantly outside of these regions
In: China perspectives
Introduction. Spaces of communication / Scott McQuire and Sun Wei -- Searching for the communicative city : a search backwards and forward / Gary Gumpert and Susan Drucker -- Architecture, media, and spaces of urban communication / Scott McQuire -- Multispace : a non-media-centric approach to mediated cities / Zlatan Krajina -- Embodied publicness : urban life in the age of mobile networks / Sun Wei -- Digitising children's public play spaces / Bjorn Nansen and Tom Apperley -- Decorating and imagining the new city with public art? Study on the sculptures and installations on Modern Avenue in Suzhou Industrial Park / Chen Lin -- smART city - turbulent city? Artistic engagements with urban ecologies in Delhi / Christiane Brosius -- Urban screens and spaces of civic communication / Stephanie Hannon -- Capturing ambient participation : Indian Independence Day at Federation Square / Nikos Papastergiadis, Danielle Wyatt and Millicent Weber -- Ambient participation, place-making and urban screens / Audrey Yue -- Trams as urban media : public transportation and the construction of Shanghai's "circulation civilization" in the early 20th century / Zhang Yuchen -- Spectacular cities and weak cosmopolitanism : international students and Melbourne / Alex Lambert and Jasmin Pfefferkorn -- Digitalized seeing : the reconstruction of urban communication network by UAV aerial photography in the big data era / Zhou Haiyan -- Spatial practices and asymmetric alignment of temporalities : how "Shanghai Fabu" Wechat account transforms government communication in Shanghai / Pan Ji.
In: Metropolis and modern life
ch. 1. Changing cities and the commodification of leisure -- ch. 2. Globalization, urban competition, and tourism -- ch. 3. Tourism policies and urban growth -- ch. 4. The infrastructure and finance of urban tourism -- ch. 5. Urban tourism, amenities, and human capital -- ch. 6. Residential development and the new face of downtowns -- ch. 7. Implications and debates.
1. The graphical performation of a public space : the subway signs and their scripts / Jerome Denis and David Pontille -- 2. The wall and the mobile phone : organizing, governing, resisting / Andrea Mubi Brighenti -- 3. Redefining the right to the city : representations of public space as part of the urban struggles / Stavros Stavrides -- 4. Hybrid cities : narratives of urban development and popular culture, the case of Medellin (Colombia) / Beatriz Acevedo and Ana Maria Carreira -- 5. Organizing urban space : tools, processes and public action / Lavinia Bifulco and Massimo Bricocoli -- 6. Public sphere in times of governance : public action, disputed building and local cultural system in a northern city of Italy / Vando Borghi and Claudia Meschiari -- 7. Transition, memory and narrations in the urban space : the case of East German cities / Barbara Gruning -- 8. Transforming spaces : translation as a practice that reveals changing e-motional structures in space / Daniela Allocca.
In: The contemporary city
This edited volume advances our understanding of urban activism beyond the social movement theorization dominated by thesis of political opportunity structure and resource mobilization, as well as by research based on experience from the global north. Covering a diversity of urban actions from a broad range of countries in both hemispheres as well as the global north and global south, this unique collection notably focuses on non-institutionalised or localised urban actions that have the potential to bring about radical structural transformation of the urban system and also addresses actions in authoritarian regimes that are too sensitive to call themselves "movement". It addresses localized issues cut off from international movements such as collective consumption issues, like clean water, basic shelter, actions against displacement or proper venues for street vendors, and argues that the integration of the actions in cities in the global south with the specificity of their local social and political environment is as pivotal as their connection with global movement networks or international NGOs. A key read for researchers and policy makers cutting across the fields of urban sociology, political science, public policy, geography, regional studies and housing studies, this text provides an interdisciplinary and international perspective on 21st century urban activism in the global north and south