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Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Rethinking Urban Modernity

Invisible Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Literature: Rethinking Urban Modernity

April 28, 2024April 16, 2024

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...

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The Gentrification of Airbnb: Closing Rent Gaps Through the Professionalization of Hosting

The Gentrification of Airbnb: Closing Rent Gaps Through the Professionalization of Hosting

April 24, 2024April 16, 2024

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...

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Beyond door policies: Cultural production as a form of spatial regulation in Amsterdam nightclubs

Beyond door policies: Cultural production as a form of spatial regulation in Amsterdam nightclubs

April 21, 2024April 16, 2024

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...

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Urban/image: Conceptualizing Amsterdam as urban environment in virtual renderings

Urban/image: Conceptualizing Amsterdam as urban environment in virtual renderings

April 19, 2024May 20, 2024

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

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WARP Walking Practices x Soapbox Journal

WARP Walking Practices x Soapbox Journal

April 16, 2024

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...

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Reflecting on the City Through Literature

Reflecting on the City Through Literature

April 16, 2024

by Daan Wesselman

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...

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