Imagining Urban Complexity : A Humanities Approach in Tropes, Media, and Genres

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Imagining Urban Complexity introduces passionate and critical perspectives on the link between the humanities and urban studies. It emphasizes tropes, media, and genres as cultural techniques that shape complexity in urban environments by distributing affordances, modes of sensing, and modes of sense-making. Focusing on urban political and cultural dynamics in 24 global cities, the book shows that urban environments are thematized in literature and art, but are also entities that are shaped, perceived, interpreted, and experienced through sense-making techniques that have long been central concerns of the humanities. These techniques, the book argues, activate a dialectic between urban imaginations and cancellations. Tropes, media, and genres are aesthetically and politically powerful: they propel imaginations and open up multiplicities of urban possibilities, they naturalize actualized orders, and they cancel alternatives. The book moves between close readings of city spaces and more systemic and infrastructural approaches to urban environments, providing tools and strategies that can be adapted and extended to understand urban complexity in different cultural and political contexts. The book speaks to global audiences from a continental philosophical tradition. It is relevant to undergraduates, postgraduates, and academic researchers in the fields of critical urban studies, urban design, comparative literature, cultural studies, cultural analysis, ecocriticism, political theory, and ethics.


  • | Author: Frans-Willem Korsten, Anthony T. Albright
  • | Publisher: Routledge
  • | Publication Date: Jul 30, 2024
  • | Number of Pages: NA pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback
  • | ISBN-10: 1032735279
  • | ISBN-13: 9781032735276
Author:
Graham B. Slater
Publisher:
Routledge
Publication Date:
Jun 14, 2024
Number of pages:
NA pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1032761539
ISBN-13:
9781032761534