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Author:   Shirley Jordan ,  Christoph Lindner (University College London, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.358kg
ISBN:  

9781474224413

ISBN 10:   1474224415
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   25 February 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword Ackbar Abbas (University of California-Irvine, USA) 1. Visual Culture and Interruption in Global Cities Shirley Jordan (Queen Mary University of London, UK) and Christoph Lindner (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) PART 1 - CRISIS AND RUIN 2. Why We Love ‘Interruption’: Urban Ruins, Food Trucks, and the Cult of Decay Richard J. Williams (University of Edinburgh, UK) 3. Rescuing History from the City: Interruption and Urban Development in Beijing Jeroen de Kloet (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) 4. Interrupting New York: Slowness and the High Line Christoph Lindner (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) 5. Sound, Memory, and Interruption: Ghosts of London’s M11 Link Road David Pinder (Roskilde University, Denmark) PART 2 - RESISTANCE AND RENEWAL 6. Suburbia, Interrupted: Street Art and the Politics of Place in the Paris Banlieues Gillian Jein (Bangor University, UK) 7. Looking at Digital Visualizations of Urban Redevelopment Projects: Dimming the Scintillating Glow of Unwork Gillian Rose, Monica Degen, and Clare Melhuish (The Open University, UK) 8. “Here We Are Now”: Amsterdam’s North-South Metro Line and the Emergence of a Networked Public Ginette Verstraete (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands) 9. Pop-Up Shops as Interruptions in (Post-)Recessional London Mara Ferreri (Queen Mary University of London, UK) PART 3 - BODIES AND SPACE 10. Interruption Expanded: Urban Photography’s Perspicacious View Hugh Campbell (University College Dublin, Ireland) 11. Buildering, Urban Interventions, and Public Sculpture Bill Marshall (University of Stirling, UK) 12. Interrupting the Street Shirley Jordan (Queen Mary University of London, UK) Bibliography Index

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A stellar cast of writers from across disciplines explore the moments when our speeded-up world is slowed or stopped. A fascinating and important collection of sharp, smart and engaging essays on urban interruptions in global cities from Amsterdam to Beijing, London to New York. Take some time. Read it. Professor Tim Cresswell, Associate Director for Public Humanities at Northeastern University, USA Cities Interrupted brings together some of the best thinknig about contemporary urbansim available. Each essay is a gem, but as an ensemble they make a cutting-edge critical intervention into urban theory. This is a book that will repay multiple readings over time. Joseph Heathcott, Associate Professor of Urban Studies at The New School, USA

A stellar cast of writers from across disciplines explore the moments when our speeded-up world is slowed or stopped. A fascinating and important collection of sharp, smart and engaging essays on urban interruptions in global cities from Amsterdam to Beijing, London to New York. Take some time. Read it. Professor Tim Cresswell, Associate Director for Public Humanities at Northeastern University, USA Cities Interrupted brings together some of the best thinknig about contemporary urbansim available. Each essay is a gem, but as an ensemble they make a cutting-edge critical intervention into urban theory. This is a book that will repay multiple readings over time. Joseph Heathcott, Associate Professor of Urban Studies at The New School, USA Cities Interrupted brings together researchers in architecture, geography, urban planning, photography and art to explore ... the subtle ways in which interruption repeatedly calls attention to the public/private dichotomy of city life. Environment and Urbanization

A stellar cast of writers from across disciplines explore the moments when our speeded-up world is slowed or stopped. A fascinating and important collection of sharp, smart and engaging essays on urban interruptions in global cities from Amsterdam to Beijing, London to New York. Take some time. Read it. Professor Tim Cresswell, Associate Director for Public Humanities at Northeastern University, USA Cities Interrupted brings together some of the best thinking about contemporary urbansim available. Each essay is a gem, but as an ensemble they make a cutting-edge critical intervention into urban theory. This is a book that will repay multiple readings over time. Joseph Heathcott, Associate Professor of Urban Studies at The New School, USA Cities Interrupted brings together researchers in architecture, geography, urban planning, photography and art to explore ... the subtle ways in which interruption repeatedly calls attention to the public/private dichotomy of city life. Environment and Urbanization

A stellar cast of writers from across disciplines explore the moments when our speeded-up world is slowed or stopped. A fascinating and important collection of sharp, smart and engaging essays on urban interruptions in global cities from Amsterdam to Beijing, London to New York. Take some time. Read it. * Professor Tim Cresswell, Associate Director for Public Humanities at Northeastern University, USA * Cities Interrupted brings together some of the best thinking about contemporary urbansim available. Each essay is a gem, but as an ensemble they make a cutting-edge critical intervention into urban theory. This is a book that will repay multiple readings over time. * Joseph Heathcott, Associate Professor of Urban Studies at The New School, USA * Cities Interrupted brings together researchers in architecture, geography, urban planning, photography and art to explore ... the subtle ways in which interruption repeatedly calls attention to the public/private dichotomy of city life. * Environment and Urbanization *

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Shirley Jordan is Professor of French Literature and Visual Culture at Queen Mary University of London, UK. Christoph Lindner is Professor of Media and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

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