Cities Interrupted Visual Culture and Urban Space
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Shirley Jordan is Professor of French Literature and Visual Culture at Queen Mary University of London, UK. Christoph Lindner is Professor of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Cities Interrupted brings together researchers in architecture, geography, urban planning, photography and art to explore ... the subtle ways in which interruption repeatedly calls attention to the public/private dichotomy of city life.
Environment and Urbanization
A stellar cast of writers from across disciplines explore the moments when our speeded-up world is slowed or stopped. A fascinating and important collection of sharp, smart and engaging essays on urban interruptions in global cities from Amsterdam to Beijing, London to New York. Take some time. Read it.
Professor Tim Cresswell, Associate Director for Public Humanities at Northeastern University, USA
Cities Interrupted brings together some of the best thinking about contemporary urbansim available. Each essay is a gem, but as an ensemble they make a cutting-edge critical intervention into urban theory. This is a book that will repay multiple readings over time.
Joseph Heathcott, Associate Professor of Urban Studies at The New School, USA