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Art and Economics in the City – New Cultural Maps
Emerging forms of alternative economic frameworks are changing the structure of society, redefining the relationship between centre and periphery, and the social dynamics in the …
Urban Appropriation Strategies – Exploring Space–Making Practices in Contemporary European Cityscapes
In the past years, the transiency of European city-making and dwelling has become increasingly hard to disregard. This urban flux calls for a methodological rethinking for those …
Urban Curating – Care, Repair, Refuse, Resist
How are art, architecture, critical research, and activism entangled with the politics of urban transformation under the regimes of modern capitalist colonialism and contemporary …
Imagineering Cultural Vienna
Media discourses always consider Vienna as a "cultural city". This study shows how such a perception is skilfully shaped by political constructions of cultural imaginaries in and …
Public Space in Transition
Teheran-ro in Seoul and Mediaspree area in Berlin are pristine examples for public spaces with a history of rapid change in the context of broader political and economic …
The Redundant City – A Multi–Site Enquiry Into Urban Narratives of Conflict and Change
Dynamic processes and conflicts are at the core of the urban condition. Against the background of continuous change in cities, concepts and assumptions about spatial …
Thinking of Space Relationally – Critical Realism Beyond Relativism – A Multitude Study of the Artworld in Beijing
Since the relational turn, scholars have combated methodological universalism, nationalism, and individualism in researching social-spatial transformations. Yet, when leaving the …
Urban Nomads Building Shanghai
This book takes a close look at the interrelated phenomena of international business migrants and rural migrant workers in Shanghai. Through separate case studies it observes them …
Thick Space
Could the concepts of "metropolitanism" and "thick space" aid our understanding of historical and contemporary urban change? Essays by scholars from both sides of the Atlantic …
Metropolitan Research
Metropolitan research requires interdisciplinary collaboration in order to do justice to the complexities of metropolitan regions. This volume provides a scholarly and accessible …
The Berlin Reader
By drawing together widely dispersed yet central writings, the Berlin Reader is an essential resource for everyone interested in urban development in one of the most interesting …
The Vatican to Vegas
A guided tour through the nuanced politics of architectural illusion, "The Vatican to Vegas" takes the reader from lavish Baroque fantasies of the seventeenth century to the …