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The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries (Hardcover)
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The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge International Handbooks
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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.
This is an essential resource for scholars and graduate researchers
in the fields of urban planning and architecture; art, media, and
cultural studies; film, visual, and literary studies; sociology and
political science; geography; and anthropology.
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