Communicative cities and urban space Cities have long been recognized as key sites for fostering new communication practices. However as contemporary cities experience major changes how do diverse inhabitants encounter each other How do cities remember What is the role of the built environment in fostering sites for public communication in a digital era Communicative Cities and Urban Space offers a critical analysis of contemporary changes in the relation between urban space and communication. This volume seeks to understand the situatedness of contemporary communication practices in diverse contexts of urban life and to explore digitized urban space as an historically specific communicative environment. The essays in this book collectively propose that the concept of the communicative city is a productive frame for rethinking the above questions in the context of 21st century media cities. They challenge us to reconsider qualities such as openness autonomy and diversity in contemporary urban communication practices and to identify factors that might expand or constrict communicative possibilities. Students and scholars of communication studies and urban studies would benefit from this book Introduction. Spaces of communication Scott McQuire and Sun Wei Searching for the communicative city : a search backwards and forward Gary Gumpert and Susan Drucker Architecture media and spaces of urban communication Scott McQuire Multispace : a non media centric approach to mediated cities Zlatan Krajina Embodied publicness : urban life in the age of mobile networks Sun Wei Digitising childrens public play spaces Bjorn Nansen and Tom Apperley Decorating and imagining the new city with public art Study on the sculptures and installations on Modern Avenue in Suzhou Industrial Park Chen Lin smART city turbulent city Artistic engagements with urban ecologies in Delhi Christiane Brosius Urban screens and spaces of civic communication Stephanie Hannon Capturing ambient participation : Indian Independence Day at Federation Square Nikos Papastergiadis Danielle Wyatt and Millicent Weber Ambient participation place making and urban screens Audrey Yue Trams as urban media : public transportation and the construction of Shanghais circulation civilization in the early 20th century Zhang Yuchen Spectacular cities and weak cosmopolitanism : international students and Melbourne Alex Lambert and Jasmin Pfefferkorn Digitalized seeing : the reconstruction of urban communication network by UAV aerial photography in the big data era Zhou Haiyan Spatial practices and asymmetric alignment of temporalities : how Shanghai Fabu Wechat account transforms government communication in Shanghai Pan Ji.