Urban mindscapes of Europe /
Weiss-Sussex, Godela.
Bianchini, Franco,1959-
Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi,
2006.
"This volume is based on papers presented at the 'Urban Mindscapes of Europe' conference held in Leicester on 29 April 2004"--P. [6].
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : European urban mindscapes : concepts, cultural representations and policy applications / Franco Bianchini -- The gestalt of the urban imaginary / Rolf Lindner -- Researching the urban imaginary : resisting the erasure of places / Jude Bloomfield -- "An avenue that looks like me" : re-presenting the modern cityscape / Betty Nigianni -- Urban mindscapes reflected in shop windows / Giandomenico Amendola -- Encountering the city : on "not taking yourself with you" / Nicolas Whybrow -- Strange city : Belfast Gothic / Neal Alexander -- "Seeing the future" : urban dystopia in Wells and Lang / Keith Williams -- Strangers (to) themselves : cityscapes and mindscapes in 1980s European cinema / Barry Langford -- Once in TV's royal city : television coverage of royal media events / Hugh O'Donnell -- Cartoons and the comic exposure of the European city of culture / Matthew Reason -- Drifting bridges : semantic changes of the bridge metaphor in twentieth-century Budapest / Levente Polyák -- Reconstructing the ancient city : imagining the Athenian polis / Stuart Price -- The myth of Berlin : the imagined and the staged city / Klaus Siebenhaar -- Berlin literature and its use in the marketing of the "New Berlin" / Godela Weiss-Sussex -- Sites and sights : the urban museum in a changing urban structure / Doris Teske -- Identity by invocation or design? : how planning is conjuring up a new identity for Malmö / Lia Ghilardi -- Confessions of a place marketer / Paul Brookes ; interviewed by Franco Bianchini.
City and town life
Sociology, Urban
Cities and towns