Games and Play in the Creative, Smart and Ecological City (Hardcover)

This book explores what games and play can tell us about contemporary processes of urbanization and examines how the dynamics of gaming can help us understand the interurban competition that underpins the entrepreneurialism of the smart and creative city. Games and Play in the Creative, Smart and Ecological City is a collection of chapters written by an interdisciplinary group of scholars from game studies, media studies, play studies, architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning. It situates the historical evolution of play and games in the urban landscape and outlines the scope of the various ways games and play contribute to the city's economy, cultural life and environmental concerns. In connecting games and play more concretely to urban discourses and design strategies, this book urges scholars to consider their growing contribution to three overarching sets of discourses that dominate urban planning and policy today: the creative and cultural economies of cities; the smart and playable city; and ecological cities. This interdisciplinary work will be of great interest to students and scholars of game studies, play studies, landscape architecture (and allied design fields), urban geography, and art history. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003007760

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Research in Sustainable Urbanism
Release date:	November 2020
First published:	2021
Editors:	Dale Leorke • Marcus Owens
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	258
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-44123-4
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > General
LSN:	0-367-44123-3
Barcode:	9780367441234

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