The volume brings together key interdisciplinary perspectives and global case studies to uncover the joint trajectories of urban space, technology, and everyday life. Tracing emerging debates and neglected connections between cities and media, this book challenges what we know about contemporary urban living.

General IntroductionPart I: Trajectories of Mediated UrbanityChapter One: An Archaeology of the Media City: Towards a Critical Cultural History ofMediated UrbanismChapter Two: The Semiotics of Urban SpaceChapter Three: Understanding Urban Screen Media and CulturesChapter Four: Urban Cinema and Photography: On Cities and "Cityness"Chapter Five: Television and the CityChapter Six: Journalism: An Urban AffairChapter Seven: Outdoor Advertising and the Remediation of Public Space(s):Commercialization and BeyondChapter Eight: Consumption-centered Urban Restructuring and the Mediation of Urban Life:From Spaces of Production to the Worlds of SeductionChapter Nine: On the Move: On Mobile Agoras, Networked Selves, and the ContemporaryCityChapter Ten: Cities of Feet and Hands: Urban HabitationsChapter Eleven: Subjectivity in the Media City: The Media Life and Representation of the Cosmopolitan StrangerPart II: Media as Urban Infrastructure; City Spaces as MediaChapter Twelve: The City Is Not a Computer: On Museums, Libraries, and ArchivesChapter Thirteen: Urban Monuments and the Spatialization of National IdeologiesChapter Fourteen: Artificial Light and the Modernist Redefinition of Urban Space: Readingthe "Electropolis"Chapter Fifteen: Urban Transport and Telecommunications: Dual Forms of theCommunicative Skeleton of the CityChapter Sixteen: Global Cities as Mediated Spaces: The Role of Media in FormingContradictory PlacesChapter Seventeen: Our Own Devices: Living in the Smart HomeChapter Eighteen: Surveillance as an Urban Way of LifeChapter Nineteen: Urban Media as Infrastructure for Social Change Chapter Twenty: In the Air Tonight: The Struggles of Communicating About UrbanEnvironmental QualityChapter Twenty-One: The Promises and Pitfalls of Cyber Urbanism: Governance andParticipationChapter Twenty-Two: Tools of the Trade: Urban Planning, Urban Media, and theRefashioning of Urban SpacePart III: Media Cities as Sites of Creative Industries and Post-Industrial UrbanismChapter Twenty-Three: From "Creative Cities" to "Media Cities": The Cases of Manchesterand ShanghaiChapter Twenty-Four: Branding, Promotion, and Urban TourismChapter Twenty-Five: "European Capital of Culture" and the Primacy of CulturalInfrastructure in Post-Industrial UrbanismChapter Twenty-Six: The Mediat(izat)ion of Urban Leisure: Screening the EventChapter Twenty-Seven: Media Architecture: Post screens, Ante [Insert here]Chapter Twenty-Eight: Fashion: An Urban Industry of StyleChapter Twenty-Nine: Digital Public Art: Installations and InterventionsChapter Thirty: Urban Nightlife CulturesChapter Thirty-One: Urban Gaming: Mobile Media, Spatial Practices and Everyday PlayChapter Thirty-Two: From Subculture to Scene: Urban Media Practices from BelowChapter Thirty-Three: Documenting Urban Neighborhoods and Claiming the Right to the CityPart IV: Spaces and Practices of Daily Life in Mediated CitiesChapter Thirty-Four: The Senses and the City: Attention, Distraction and Media Technologyin Urban EnvironmentsChapter Thirty-Five: Navigating Hybrid Urban Spaces: Smartphones and Locative MediaPracticesChapter Thirty-Six: Media Audiences in the Urban ContextChapter Thirty-Seven: Temporary Inscriptions: Exploring Graffiti and Street Art in the Age ofInternetization of Everyday Urban LifeChapter Thirty-Eight: Creating a Situation in the City: Embodied Spaces and the Act ofCrossing BoundariesChapter Thirty-Nine: Mediated Urban Protest: Practicing Dissent in Hybrid City SpacesChapter Forty: Community, Media, and the CityChapter Forty-One: "The Street is the Message": Racial Violence and the White Control ofMobilityChapter Forty-Two: Living in the Disadvantaged End of "Dual Cities": Understanding theUrban Poor and the PrecariatChapter Forty-Three: The Politics of Sexuality in Mediated CitiesChapter Forty-Four: Methodological Approaches in Urban Media and CommunicationResearch