2019-20: Cultures of Urban (In)Justice
Announcing the 2019-20 Cities Seminar theme “Cultures of Urban (In)Justice”. In this seminar series, we will explore dynamics of spatial (in)justice from the vantage of creative, cultural, aesthetic and political practices in contemporary urban environments.
Dr. Patricia Barkaskas
Visiting Researcher (Winter 2019-20)
University of British Columbia
Guest Lecture: “Unmaking a Chocolate City: Spatial Aesthetics of Race and the Gentrifying Urban Landscape” by Brandi T. Summers
Tracing Washington, D.C.’s shift from a Chocolate City to a “post-chocolate” cosmopolitan metropolis, this talk discusses the continuing significance of blackness in the U.S. capital, and discuss how blackness is integral to our understanding of the city.
Book launch: Visualising the street. New ways of seeing and documenting the city
The advancement of digital technologies has given rise to the production and dissemination of many new forms of imagery of streets and urban realities. This in turn creates different spaces and encounters, new ways of using and moving through the city. What are the effects of these new forms of image-making and image-sharing on documenting […]
2018-2019: Repairing Infrastructures
Announcing the 2018-19 Cities Seminar theme “Repairing Infrastructures”. In this seminar series, we will explore the city in relation to infrastructure, taking stock of its many failures and crises, while attending to possibilities for alternative material and social infrastructures.
World-Making in Urban Cultural Studies
Special issue
Carolyn Birdsall and Simone Kalkman
2018
Visualizing the Street: New Practices of Documenting, Navigating and Imagining the City
Edited book
Pedram Dibazar and Judith Naeff
2018
A line in the sand: IPCC’s “Global Warming of 1.5 °C” and the public discourse of tipping points
A line in the sand: IPCC’s “Global Warming of 1.5 °C” and the public discourse of tipping points
Event at Spui25
2017-18: Entangled Cities
Announcing the 2017-2018 Cities Seminar theme “Entangled Cities”. In this seminar series, we will explore processes of entanglement in relation to the production of urban environments, with attention to mapping practices, networked infrastructures, and ecological politics.
Methodological Tools for Explorations of Urban Changes in Built Environments
Review Essay
Karin Christof
2018
Wandering Cars and Extended Presence: Abbas Kiarostami’s Embodied Cinema of Everyday Mobility
Journal Article
Pedram Dibazar
2017
Capturing Commemoration: Using Mobile Recordings Within Memory Research
Journal Article
Carolyn Birdsall and Danielle Drozdzewski
2017
The Citizen Professional, Mediatization, and the Creation of a Public Domain
Journal Article
Karin Christof
2017
The Railway and the River: Conduits of Dickens’ Imaginary City
Book Chapter
Ben Moore
2017
International Conference Urban World-Making
June 1-2 2017, Amsterdam
The international workshop Urban World-Making explores contemporary processes of ‘worlding’ in relation to urban environments.
The Shock of the Whole: Phenomenologies of Global Mapping in Solomon Nikritin’s The Old and the New
Journal Article
Simon Ferdinand
2016
Ruptures in the City: Retrospective memory in Benjamin’s Paris and Koolhaas’ New York
Book Chapter
Ben Moore
2016
Guest Lecture: “Jane Jacobs on Cities, Economies, and Morals” by Samuel Zipp
This lecture will elaborate on Jane Jacobs and her less well-known visions on economic growth and forms of social and political organization that shape urban life.
Cities Interrupted: Visual Culture and Urban Space
Edited Book
Shirley Jordan and Christoph Lindner
2016
Guest Lecture: “Street Art, Dissidence, and Brandalism” by Ana Cristina Mendes
This lecture will offer a comparative approach to the performative dynamics of celebrity in street art, with reference to Banksy and Alexandre Farto (the Portuguese street artist aka Vhils)
Guest Lecture: “Mud, Media, and the Metropolis” by Shannon Mattern
This talk is part of a larger project that explores the longue duree, the deep time, of urban mediation, and examines the aggregated histories of city-building, mud-molding and mark-making.
Drawing Like a State: Maps, Modernity and Warfare in the Art of Gert Jan Kocken
Journal Article
Simon Ferdinand
2016
Leftover Space, Invisibility, and Everyday Life: Rooftops in Iran
Book Chapter
Pedram Dibazar
2016
Global Garbage: Urban Imaginaries of Waste, Excess, and Abandonment
Edited Book
Christoph Lindner and Miriam Meissner
2016
International Conference: Visualizing the Street
For the international conference Visualizing the Street, the ASCA Cities Project invites papers that explore the impact of contemporary practices of image-making on the visual cultures of the street.
Cities and Cultures: Book Series
Cities and Cultures is an interdisciplinary book series addressing the interrelations between contemporary cities and the cultures they produce. The series takes a special interest in the impact of globalization on urban space and cultural production, but remains concerned with all forms of cultural expression and transformation associated with contemporary cities.