Imaginative Structure of the City
Author: Alan Blum
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780773525399
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Imaginative Structure of the City
Author: Alan Blum
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2003-05-07
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0773571035
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlum's distinctive form of theoretical inquiry pushes the reader to move beyond conventional ways of thinking about familiar urban issues in answering such fundamental questions as, How does a city exist? How do its inhabitants define their relationship to it? Who is entitled to speak for it? What is its symbolic nature? In what way does the city function as a focus of attempts to resolve social problems such as alienation, participation, and community? In what ways do night and nighttime affect our relationship to it? How is it possible to speak of a city as both exciting and alienating?
The Image of the City
Author: Kevin Lynch
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1964-06-15
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780262620017
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.
The Creative City
Author: Charles Landry
Publisher: Demos
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 31
ISBN-13: 1898309167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCities will have to apply creative solutions to their myrrad problems the coming years. They need to develop creative and innovative industries and services, such as design and culture. Examples of 'creative' cities.
Cities and the Creative Class
Author: Richard L. Florida
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780415948869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRichard Florida outlines how certain cities succeed in attracting members of the 'creative class' - the key economic growth asset - and argues that, in order to prosper, cities must harness this creative potential.
Branding Berlin
Author: Katrina Sark
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-07-21
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1000914216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a cultural history of post-Wall urban, social, political, and cultural transformations in Berlin. Branding Berlin: From Division to the Cultural Capital of Europe presents a cultural analysis of Berlin’s cultural production, including literature, film, memoirs and non-fiction works, art, media, urban branding campaigns, and cultural diversity initiatives put forth by the Berlin Senate, and allows readers to understand the various changes that transformed the formerly divided city of voids into a hip cultural capital. The book examines Berlin’s branding, urban-economic development, and its search for a post-Wall identity by focusing on manifestations of nostalgic longing in documentary films and other cultural products. Building on the sociological research of urban branding and linking it with an interpretive analysis of cultural products generated in Berlin during that time, the author examines the intersections and tensions between the nostalgic views of the past and the branded images of Berlin’s present and future. This insightful and innovative work will interest scholars and students of cultural and media studies, branding and advertising, urban communication, film studies, visual culture, tourism, and cultural memory.
"Invisible Cities" and the Urban Imagination
Author: Benjamin Linder
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2022-11-08
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 3031130480
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1972, Italo Calvino published Invisible Cities, a literary book that masterfully combines philosophy and poetry, rigid structure and free play, theoretical insight and glittering prose. The text is an extended meditation on urban life, and it continues to resonate not only among literary scholars, but among social scientists, architects, and urban planners as well. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Invisible Cities, this collection of essays serves as both an appreciation and a critical engagement. Drawing from a wide array of disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts, this volume grapples with the theoretical, pedagogical, and political legacies of Calvino’s work. Each chapter approaches Invisible Cities not only as a novel but as a work of evocative ethnography, place-writing, and urban theory. Fifty years on, what can Calvino’s dreamlike text offer to scholars and practitioners interested in actually existing urban life?
Tourism and the Branded City
Author: Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-02-24
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1317009649
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComparing the major Pacific Rim cities of Sydney, Hong Kong and Shanghai, this book examines world city branding. Whilst all three cities compete on the world's stage for events, tourists and investment, they are also at the centre of distinct film traditions and their identities are thus strongly connected with a cinematic impression. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book not only analyses the city branding of these cities from the more widely researched perspectives of tourism, marketing and regional development, but also draws in cultural studies and psychology approaches which offer fresh and useful insights to place branding and marketing in general. The authors compare and contrast qualitative and quantitative original data as well as critically analyzing current texts and debates on city branding. In conclusion, they argue that city branding should contribute not only to regional development and identity, but also to sustainable economic well-being and public happiness.
Urban Enigmas
Author: Johanne Sloan
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2007-02-12
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 0773577076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe practice of comparison is implicit in every act of imagining, representing, and studying urban experience. Urban Enigmas contributes to recent interdisciplinary interest in cities by introducing comparison as a key methodology for urban cultural analysis.
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Youth Culture
Author: Andy Bennett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2022-12-29
Total Pages: 721
ISBN-13: 1501333704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music and Youth Culture provides a comprehensive and fully up-to-date overview of key themes and debates relating to the academic study of popular music and youth culture. While this is a highly popular and rapidly expanding field of research, there currently exists no single-source reference book for those interested in this topic. The handbook is comprised of 32 original chapters written by leading authors in the field of popular music and youth culture and covers a range of topics including: theory; method; historical perspectives; genre; audience; media; globalization; ageing and generation.
