The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries - 9780367733049

Name: The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries - 9780367733049
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Taylor & Francis Ltd

The Routledge Companion to Urban ImaginariesAuthor(s): Christoph Lindner, Miriam Meissner\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367733049, 978-0367733049\nSynopsis\nThe Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries delves into examples of urban imaginaries across multiple media and geographies: from new visions of smart, eco, and resilient cities to urban dystopias in popular culture; from architectural renderings of starchitecture and luxury living to performative activism for new spatial justice; and from speculative experiments in urban planning, fiction, and photography to augmented urban realities in crowd-mapping and mobile apps.\n\nThe volume brings various global perspectives together and into close dialogue to offer a broad, interdisciplinary, and critical overview of the current state of research on urban imaginaries. Questioning the politics of urban imagination, the companion gives particular attention to the .