From the verticals of New York, Hong Kong and Australia's Gold
Coast to the sprawls of London, Paris and Jakarta, this
cross-disciplinary volume of new writing examines constructions,
representations, imaginations and theorizations of urban space and
cityscapes in modern and contemporary culture. Linked by a shared
concern for issues of spatiality, the essay topics are organized
around three interrelated themes - image, text, and form - and
range from the examination of cyberpunk skylines, postcolonial
urbanism, and the cinema of urban disaster, to the analysis of
iconic city landmarks such as the Twin Towers, the London Eye, and
the Jewish Museum Berlin.
Working at the intersections of visual, material, and literary
culture, "Urban Space and Cityscapes" seeks in particular:
- to provide new critical and theoretical perspectives on the city
at a time when the condition and future of urbanism are major
subjects of international and public concern.
- to examine the aesthetic, narrative, and representational
strategies used to interpret the dynamic space of cities.
- to explore the relationship between urban space and a variety of
pressing cultural concerns, including issues of identity, memory,
technology, class, gender, nation, and ethnicity.
With original essays from the fields of architecture, cultural
theory, film, geography, literature, and visual art, "Urban Space"
"and Cityscapes" offers fresh insight into the increasingly complex
relationship between urban space, cultural production, and everyday
life.
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