Communicative cities and urban space. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Scott McQuire, Sun Wei.
• Editors: McQuire, Scott; Wei, Sun
• Contents: 1 Introduction — Spaces of communication, Scott McQuire and Sun Wei. PART 1: RETHINKING MEDIATED URBAN SPACE AS COMMUNICATIVE SPACE. 2 Searching for the Communicative City: A Search Backwards and Forward. Gary Gumpert (Urban Communication Foundation) and Susan Drucker (Hofstra University, United States). 3 Architecture, media, and spaces of urban communication. Scott McQuire (University of Melbourne, Australia). 4 Multispace: A Non-media-centric Approach to Mediated Cities. Zlatan Krajina (University of Zagreb, Croatia). PART 2: PLACES, COMMUNICATION AND PLACEMAKING. . 5 Embodied publicness: urban life in the age of mobile networks. Sun Wei (Fudan University, China). 6 Digitising children’s public play spaces. Bjorn Nansen (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Tom Apperley (University of Tampere, Finland). 7 Decorating and Imagining the New City with Public Art? Study on the sculptures and installations on Modern Avenue in Suzhou Industrial Park. Chen Lin ( Suzhou University, China) and Lu Jieqing (Xinhua Daily). 8 smART city - turbulent city? Artistic Engagements with Urban Ecologies in Delhi. Christiane Brosius (Heidelberg University, Germany). PART 3: URBAN SCREENS AND NEW FORMS OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION. 9 Urban screens and spaces of civic communication. Stephanie Hannon (University of Melbourne, Australia). 10 Capturing ambient participation: Indian Independence Day at Federation Square. Nikos Papastergiadis (University of Melbourne, Australia), Danielle Wyatt (University of Melbourne, Australia) and Millicent Weber (Australian National University, Australia). 11 Ambient Participation, Place-making and Urban Screens. Audrey Yue (National University of Singapore, Singapore). PART 4: URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE COMMUNICATIVE CITY. 12 Trams as Urban Media: Public Transportation and the Construction of Shanghai's "Circulation Civilization" in the Early 20th Century. ZHANG Yuchen (Shanghai Social Science Research Institute, China). 13 Spectacular Cities and Weak Cosmopolitanism: International Students and Melbourne. Alex Lambert (National University of Singapore, Singapore) and Jasmin Pfefferkorn (University of Melbourne, Australia) . 14 Digitalized seeing: the reconstruction of urban communication network by UAV aerial photography in the big data era. Zhou Haiyan (Fudan University, China). 15 Spatial practices and asymmetric alignment of temporalities: How "Shanghai Fabu" Wechat account transforms government communication in Shanghai. Pan Ji (Fudan University, China).
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 307.76; Communication -- Social aspects; Public spaces; Telecommunication systems -- Social aspects; Smart cities; Sociology, Urban
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000293593; 9781000293579; 9781003054436
• Related ISBNs: 9780367515607
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