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Ineffably Urban: Imaging Buffalo (Paperback)
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Ineffably Urban: Imaging Buffalo (Paperback)
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Buffalo, in New York state, is 'ineffable': a typical city in
transition between its past and future. It is a classic example of
one of many 'shrinking cities' in North America and elsewhere which
once prospered because of heavy industrialization, but which now
have to deal with various degrees of urban decay. Bringing together
a range of scholars from the humanities, the social sciences, art
and architecture, this volume looks at both the literal city image
and urban representation generated by photographs, video,
historical and contemporary narratives, and grass-root initiatives.
It investigates the notion of agency of media in the city and, in
return, what the city's agency is. This agency matters particularly
as it is both transforming - shrinking, fading, being redefined -
and being shaped through its visual and spatial mediation. While
illustrated by Buffalo in particular, the book examines a broader
phenomenon: the identity of those cities that were built and
blossomed during the late 19th and early 20th century and are now
in different stages of decline and disintegration. However, while
such cities are all confronted with complex issues of economic
instability, social and racial segregation, urban sprawl and
shrinking processes both in the inner city and more and more in
their ex-urban belts, they are too often described through
dramatically simplifying visual and linguistic tropes. In Buffalo
such tropes refer dialectically either to the city's past glory or
its presumed current cultural, political and economical stasis and
decline. This book takes such tired, and familiar tropes and
questions them.
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