New book Maps as Media edited by Alex Gekker
Maps have escaped from the confines of road atlases or decorative frames to being ubiquitous on our screens. Using a GPS while driving, looking for a shop on Google Maps, or … Read more...
Special Issue of Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture edited by Carolyn Birdsall, Linda Kopitz and Alex Gekker
The city is a playground. But is it really? This dossier takes this recurring metaphor as a starting point to explore … Read more...
By Ben Moore
Ben Moore presents a new approach to reading urban modernity in nineteenth-century literature, by bringing together hidden, mobile and transparent features of city space as part of a single system he calls ‘invisible architecture’. Resisting narratives of … Read more...
Jelke R. Bosma and Niels van Doorn in Space and Culture
In this article, we argue that it is analytically productive to think about the professionalization of hosting on Airbnb in terms of (commercial) gentrification. More precisely, we believe that … Read more...
Timo Koren in European Journal of Cultural Studies
Understanding regulation is key to identifying and understanding the mechanisms and patterns that (re)produce social inequalities in nightclub production. Roughly speaking, researchers have focused on two forms of regulation: governmental regulation and … Read more...
Linda Kopitz in European Journal of Cultural Studies
This article proposes that virtual renderings of speculative architectural projects provide a crucial entry point into the reimagination of sustainable urban life through the production of nature(s) within the city. Drawing on
Special Issue WARP Walking Practices x Soapbox Journal edited by Alice Twemlow and Tânia A. Cardoso
Walking centres the body in a research practice. The body that gets cold, sweaty, thirsty, or blistered. The body that encompasses feelings, emotions, prejudices, … Read more...
This book develops and demonstrates an interdisciplinary method that reads literary works as a way of thinking about the city. Literary works do not only provide reflections of the city – depictions of the city as an … Read more...