Books in the Cities and Cultures series

The Cinema of Urban Crisis explores the relationships between cinema and urban crises in the United States and Europe in the 1970s.

Visualizing the Street investigates the social and cultural significance of new developments at the intersection of visual culture and urban space.

China is urbanizing at an unprecedented speed. Filmmakers, artists, musicians, and writers all try to come to terms with the changes of their city. How is the Chinese city-as-spectacle, visualised and thus imagined and reimagined, if not contested, in art and popular culture? What are the possible escape routes from a completely commodified citysca

A case study of Berlin to see how the city has responded to challenges to memory created by rapid changes in politics, economics, society, and the built environment, ultimately arguing that the recovery of the experience of time is central to the practices of an emergent memory culture in the contemporary city.