Communicating the city : meanings practices interactions Acknowledgments Foreword by Susan Drucker and Gary Gumpert Introduction: communicating the city between the centre and the margins by Giorgia Aiello and Matteo Tarantino Imagining the city Journalism and the changing act of observation : writing about cities in the British press 1880 1940 by Carole OReilly Questioning the smart city : from techno entrepreneurial to intelligence enabling by Davide Lampugnani Spatial materialities : co producing imaged inhabited spaces by Greg Dickinson and Brian L. Ott Vedic Victorians on American gothics landscape : relocating foreign architecture and restoring the spatial figure of juxtaposition by Joan Faber McAlister Making the city Rural spaces urban textures : media leisure and identity in a southern China industrial village by Matteo Tarantino and Chung Tai Cheng Practices of location sharing and the performances of locative identity among Italian users of foursquare by Federica Timeto Urban change and the mesh : an ethnography of deptfords open wireless network by Paolo Cardullo The communication infrastructure that supports life in the city and enables urban community change by Matthew Matsaganis Sharing the city Interrogating phonocentrism in the hearing city : exploring deaf experiences by Gill Harold Plague in the city : digital media as shaming apparatus toward mainland Chinese locusts in Hong Kong by Jonathan Corpus Ong and Tony Zhiyang Lin Communication and knowledge creation in urban spaces : the tactics of artistic collectives in Barcelona Berlin and St. Petersburg by Aleksandra Nenko Anisya Khokhlova Nikita Basov Community through multiple connectivities : mapping communication assets in multicultural London by Wallis Motta and Myria Georgiou Afterword: communication and the city by Kate Oakley and Giorgia Aiello Notes on contributors Index