Urban Assemblage / / Edited by William Fourie.

From subversive shop windows to moralising theme parks, Urban Assemblage presents eight diverse perspectives on urban space and culture. The volume spotlights cities as far afield as Johannesburg and Cork City to see how different cultures, media, mobilities and narratives come to form the spaces we...

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Place / Publishing House:Oxford, England : : Inter-Disciplinary Press,, [2016]
2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / William Fourie
  • Breaking the Meaning of Urban Space / Ties de Ruijter
  • Silent Lines: Urban Space and the Aesthetics of Crime / William Fourie
  • Sites of Solidarity: How a Transcultural Community of Young Adults in Ireland Use Media Production to Cultivate Solidarity and Deal with the Impact of ‘Big’ Events / Laura Kinsella
  • Shop Windows as the Texts of Urban Popular Culture: Between the Dominant Ideology and Resistance / Karina Stasiuk-Krajewska
  • Utopia and Dystopia in Narratives about Tuscany / Giulio Giovannoni
  • Artistic Spaces and Bohemian Lifestyles: Cafés as Spaces of Cultural Consumption / Weronika Maćków
  • Invoking Hell: Revisiting the Ten Courts in Haw Par Villa / Hsiao Yuz Tan
  • The Evolution of the Hipster: From Broyard’s Hipster and the Beats to the 21st Century / Ivana Bančić.