Imaging the City

Continuing Struggles and New Directions

Lawrence J. Vale, Sam Bass Warner (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

542 Seiten

2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-52575-7 (ISBN)

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Planners face a controversial task because their professional role requires them to be spokespersons for the public interest. In a welter of conflicting pictures and voices, how might the public interest be discovered? Once identified, how might it be expressed so that competing publics attend to it? There are no easy answers, but the experience of planners today suggests ways of working and innovations of promise.The focus on planning practice prompted the editors to analyze images that are now at work in our cities. For Vale and Warner, all city design and constructions offer material that people should include in images of their environment. The built and building city are part of the experience of all city dwellers; it is theirs to incorporate, interpret, or ignore. Essays included in this text trace the interplay between physical objects of planners and architects and the social experience and outlooks of image makers and their audiences.Imaging the City explores urban image making from civic boosterism of medieval cities to iconic imagery of Times Square. Vale and Warner bring together urban historians, geographers, city planners, architects, and cultural commentators to analyze the creation of urban imagery from the signature skyscrapers of Kuala Lumpur to the re-creation of the South Bronx and the use of city images in film, literature, television, and on the Internet. Urban dwellers, urban planners, architects, municipal officials, sociologists, urban historians - all will perceive their worlds with a heightened sense of awareness after reading this book.

Warner, Jr.

part I ■ STRUGGLES OVER CITY IMAGES part II ■ RESPONSES TO THE OVERWHELMING CITY, PART III ■ NEW IMAGES AND NEW IMAGE MAKERS.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.01.2021
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	1170 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-138-52575-8 / 1138525758
ISBN-13	978-1-138-52575-7 / 9781138525757
Zustand	Neuware