Globalization, Violence and the Visual Culture of Cities

• Hardcover | Engels | Questioning Cities
• What connects garbage dumps in New York, bomb sites in Baghdad, and skyscrapers in São Paulo? How is contemporary visual culture - extending from art ... Lees meer

Cities and Race

David Wilson

• Hardcover | Engels | Questioning Cities
• This fascinating book examines the 1990s rise of a new black ghetto in rust belt America, 'the global ghetto'. It uses the emergent perspective of 'ra... Lees meer

Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene

• Paperback | Engels | Questioning Cities
• Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities centres on how to organize anew the articulation between emancipatory... Lees meer

Urban Space and Cityscapes

• Paperback | Engels | Questioning Cities
• Examining constructions, representations, imaginations and theorizations of 'cityscapes' in contemporary culture, this new interdisciplinary volume in... Lees meer

Urban Space and Cityscapes

• Hardcover | Questioning Cities
• Examining constructions, representations, imaginations and theorizations of 'cityscapes' in contemporary culture, this new interdisciplinary volume in... Lees meer

The Urban Condition

Brendan Gleeson

• Paperback | Engels | Questioning Cities
• This book will speak to the new human epoch, the Urban Age. A majority of humanity now lives for the first time in cities. The city, the highest inven... Lees meer

Between Bohemia and Suburbia

William J Weston

• Hardcover | Engels | Questioning Cities
• This book identifies a distinctive kind of urban neighborhood that is on the rise throughout the USA, the dense, walkable, mixed-use bourgeois-bohemia... Lees meer

Urban Assemblages

• Paperback | Engels | Questioning Cities
• This book takes it as a given that the city is made of multiple partially localized assemblages built of heterogeneous networks, spaces, and practices... Lees meer

Urban Cosmopolitics

• Paperback | Engels | Questioning Cities
• Invoking the notion of 'cosmopolitics' from Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers, this volume shows how and why cities constitute privileged sites for s... Lees meer

Ordinary Cities

Jennifer Robinson

• Paperback | Engels | Questioning Cities
• With the urbanization of the world's population proceeding apace and the equally rapid urbanization of poverty, urban theory has an urgent challenge t... Lees meer

Cities, Nationalism and Democratization

Scott A Bollens

• Paperback | Engels | Questioning Cities
• Cities, Nationalism, and Democratization provides a theoretically informed, practice-oriented account of intercultural conflict and co-existence in ci... Lees meer

Life in the Megalopolis

Lucia Sa

• Paperback | Engels | Questioning Cities
• The modern metropolis has been called 'the symbol of our times', and life in it epitomizes, for many, modernity itself. But what to make of inherited ... Lees meer

Reason in the City of Difference

Gary Bridge

• Paperback | Questioning Cities
• This book re-establishes a notion of conscious agency in our understanding of urban life. Using empirical examples and drawing on pragmatist ideas of ... Lees meer

Small Cities

David (University of Leeds, UK) Bell, Mark (University of Leeds, UK) Jayne

• Hardcover | Questioning Cities
• Providing a critical introduction into how, on whose behalf, and with what consequences cities are run, the international contributors to this topical... Lees meer

Life in the Megalopolis

Lucia Sa

• Hardcover | Engels | Questioning Cities
• Life in the Megalopolis discusses how contemporary literature, cinema, popular music and visual arts describe life in two of the largest cities in the... Lees meer

Globalization, Violence and the Visual Culture of Cities

• Paperback | Engels | Questioning Cities
• This book is the first interdisciplinary volume to examine the complex relationship between globalization, violence, and the visual culture of cities Lees meer

Cities, Nationalism and Democratization

Scott A Bollens

• Hardcover | Engels | Questioning Cities
• Cities, Nationalism, and Democratization provides a theoretically informed, practice-oriented account of intercultural conflict and co-existence in ci... Lees meer

City Publics

Sophie (The Open University, UK) Watson

• Hardcover | Questioning Cities
• Through her investigation of the more ordinary and less dramatic forms of encounter and contestation in the city, author Sophie Watson is able to conc... Lees meer

Searching for the Just City

• Hardcover | Engels | Questioning Cities
• Cities are many things. Among their least appealing aspects, cities are frequently characterized by concentrations of insecurity and exploitation. Cit... Lees meer

Searching for the Just City

• Paperback | Engels | Questioning Cities
• Cities are many things. Among their least appealing aspects, cities are frequently characterized by concentrations of insecurity and exploitation. Cit... Lees meer

The Urban Condition

Brendan Gleeson

• Hardcover | Engels | Questioning Cities
• This book will speak to the new human epoch, the Urban Age. A majority of humanity now lives for the first time in cities. The city, the highest inven... Lees meer

Between Bohemia and Suburbia

William J Weston

• Paperback | Engels | Questioning Cities
• This book identifies a distinctive kind of urban neighborhood that is on the rise throughout the USA, the dense, walkable, mixed-use bourgeois-bohemia... Lees meer

Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene

• Hardcover | Engels | Questioning Cities
• Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities centres on how to organize anew the articulation between emancipatory... Lees meer

Ordinary Cities

Jennifer Robinson

• Hardcover | Engels | Questioning Cities
• With the urbanization of the world's population proceeding apace and the equally rapid urbanization of poverty, urban theory has an urgent challenge t... Lees meer