Captured by the city
Subtitle: perspectives in urban culture studies
By: edited by Blagovesta M. Momchedjikova
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9781443854634; 9781443842891
Subjects: City and town life; Urban Sociology; Cities and towns; Culture; Cities; Vie urbaine; Sociologie urbaine; Villes; Urban sociology; Humanities; Urban communities; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Public Policy; Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Anthropology; Cultural; Popular Culture
Other titles: Perspectives in urban culture studies
Description: Captured by the City: Perspectives in Urban Culture Studies is a collection of eighteen essays on urban places, people, and phenomena. In it, cities in North America, Europe, and Asia offer themselves as dynamic encounters to those who study them and to those who live in them on a daily basis. Different disciplines-Sociology, Anthropology, Performance Studies, Architectural History, Linguistics, Media Studies, Documentary Poetics, to name just a few-intersect here to help shape a unique field of inquiry-that of Urban Culture Studies. This multi-perspectival approach grants us a more wholesome understanding of how we inscribe cities and how cities inscribe us in return: as we plan, inhabit, remember them-in reality or in dreams.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I. City places : in memory, history, and real-time; title: part II. City identities : in transit and situ; title: part III. Performing the city : voices and practices.