Books in the Mediated Cities series

Filming the City: Urban Documents, Design Practices & Social Criticism Through the Lens brings together the work of filmmakers, architects, designers, media specialists and video artists. It offers three prisms through which to examine and use the medium of film in the context of the city. It gives commentaries of particular films and their social and urban relevance; it offers historical and contemporary criticisms of both film and urbanism from conflicting perspectives; and it documents examples of how to actively use the medium of film in the design of our cities, spaces and buildings. Giving a sense of the diversity of interactions between the medium of architectural-urban design and the medium of film, Filming the City is ideal for readers from both fields. For those coming from a spatial design background the tropes and possibilities of film as a tool and a documentary medium will be explored. For those coming from a film-media background the multiple possibilities of film as a visual backdrop, narrative theme or conceptual tool will be examined.

Imaging the City brings together the work of designers, artists, dancers and media specialists who investigate how we perceive the city, how we imagine it, how we experience it, and how we might better design it. The editors open up the field of urban analysis and thought to the perspectives of creative professionals from non-urban disciplines.

In the contemporary city, the physical infrastructure and sensorial experiences of two millennia are now interwoven within an invisible digital matrix. This matrix alters human perceptions of the city, informs our behaviour, and increasingly influences the urban designs we ultimately inhabit.

Transformations explores the interactions between people and their urban surroundings through site-specific art and creative practices, tracing the ways people shape their cities. This collection also investigates the politics and democratization of space through an examination of art, education, justice and the role of the citizen in the city.