Cultural Landscapes of Post-Socialist Cities

Mariusz Czepczynski

• Hardcover | Engels | Re-Materialising Cultural Geography
• The cultural landscapes of Central European cities reflect over half a century of socialism and are marked by the Marxists' vision of a utopian landsc... Lees meer

Swinging City

Simon Rycroft

• Paperback | Engels | Re-Materialising Cultural Geography
• This book contrasts two imaginings of 1960s London: the excess and comic vacuousness of Swinging London, and the radical politics generated by the cit... Lees meer

Cultural Capitals

Louise Johnson

• Paperback | Engels | Re-Materialising Cultural Geography
• This is a book about the power of the arts to enhance city images, urban economies and communities. Anchored in academic discussion of the Cultural In... Lees meer

Fear: Critical Geopolitics and Everyday Life

Susan J Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Re-Materialising Cultural Geography
• 'Fear' in the twenty-first century has greater currency in western societies than ever before. Through scares ranging from cot death, juvenile crime, ... Lees meer

Critical Toponymies

Jani Vuolteenaho

• Hardcover | Engels | Re-Materialising Cultural Geography
• While place names have long been studied by a few devoted specialists, approaches to them have been traditionally empiricist and uncritical in charact... Lees meer

Sanctuaries of the City

Anni Greve

• Paperback | Engels | Re-Materialising Cultural Geography
• This book proposes that we can learn from Tokyo about the instrinsic importance of in-between realms to an international culture: the sanctuaries. It ... Lees meer

Fear: Critical Geopolitics and Everyday Life

Susan J Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Re-Materialising Cultural Geography
• 'Fear' in the twenty-first century has greater currency in western societies than ever before. Through scares ranging from cot death, juvenile crime, ... Lees meer

Experimental Politics and the Making of Worlds. Anja Kanngieser

Anja Kanngieser

• Hardcover | Engels | Re-Materialising Cultural Geography
• Creative strategies have been central to global social movements. From the theatrics of the 1999 Seattle protests, to the rebel clowns at the 2005 G8 ... Lees meer

Towards Safe City Centres?

Gesa Helms

• Hardcover | Engels | Re-Materialising Cultural Geography
• Examining the rising interest in quality-of-life offences, anti-social behaviour and incivilities in urban public spaces, this study explores the risi... Lees meer

On South Bank: The Production of Public Space

Alasdair J H Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Re-Materialising Cultural Geography
• Through an in-depth ethnographic examination of London's 'South Bank', this book explores the value widely presupposed on urban public space. Based on... Lees meer

Swinging City

Simon Rycroft

• Hardcover | Engels | Re-Materialising Cultural Geography
• This book works with two contrasting imaginings of 1960s London: the one of the excess and comic vacuousness of Swinging London, the other of the radi... Lees meer

In the Shadows of the Tropics

James S Duncan

• Paperback | Engels | Re-Materialising Cultural Geography
• In this original work James Duncan explores the transformation of Ceylon during the mid-nineteenth century into one of the most important coffee growi... Lees meer

Doing Family Photography

Gillian Rose

• Hardcover | Engels | Re-Materialising Cultural Geography
• Family photography, a ubiquitous domestic tradition in the developed world, is now more popular than ever thanks to the development of digital photogr... Lees meer

Doing Family Photography

Gillian Rose

• Paperback | Engels | Re-Materialising Cultural Geography
• Family photography is now more popular than ever thanks to technological advances which allow the storing and sharing of vast numbers of pictures. Her... Lees meer

Creative Economies in Post-Industrial Cities

• Hardcover | Engels | Re-Materialising Cultural Geography
• There has been much written on the new creative economy, but most work focuses on the so-called 'creative class, ' with lifestyle preferences that fav... Lees meer

Mixed Towns, Trapped Communities

Daniel Monterescu

• Paperback | Engels | Re-Materialising Cultural Geography
• Modern urban spaces are, by definition, mixed socio-spatial configurations. This mixture, however, has often led to violent conflict over land and ide... Lees meer

Cities and Fascination

Wolf-Dietrich Sahr

• Hardcover | Engels | Re-Materialising Cultural Geography
• Bringing together leading urban scholars, this book discusses the linkages between the economic, social and psychological factors of the urban environ... Lees meer

Presenting America's World

Tamar Y Rothenberg

• Paperback | Engels | Re-Materialising Cultural Geography
• National Geographic magazine is probably the most visible and popular expression of geography in the USA. Presenting America's World presents a critic... Lees meer

Experimental Politics and the Making of Worlds. Anja Kanngieser

Anja Kanngieser

• Paperback | Engels | Re-Materialising Cultural Geography
• Creative strategies have been central to global social movements. From the theatrics of the 1999 Seattle protests, to the rebel clowns at the 2005 G8 ... Lees meer

Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders

Haim Yacobi

• Hardcover | Engels | Re-Materialising Cultural Geography
• Remembering, Forgetting and City Builders critically explores how urban spaces are designed, planned and experienced in relation to the politics of co... Lees meer

From the Ground Up

Efrat Eizenberg

• Hardcover | Engels | Re-Materialising Cultural Geography
• Little-known, and hidden between skyscrapers and wide avenues, some 650 community gardens dot New York City. Set within one of the densest and most ex... Lees meer

Encountering Urban Places

Lars Frers

• Hardcover | Engels | Re-Materialising Cultural Geography
• The aesthetics of urban life offer a curious quality, one that is both highly visible and hidden, both openly influencing and subtly imprinting. These... Lees meer

Disposable Cities

Garth Andrew Myers

• Paperback | Engels | Re-Materialising Cultural Geography
• Based on in-depth fieldwork in three cities, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar and Lusaka, this book provides a critical analysis of the United Nations Sustaina... Lees meer

Critical Toponymies

Jani Vuolteenaho

• Paperback | Engels | Re-Materialising Cultural Geography
• This book brings together recent works that conceptualize the hegemonic and contested practices of geographical naming. Illustrated with a global rang... Lees meer