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An analysis of the ways film and media create topographies of cities, architecture, and metropolitan experiences. Narrating the City examines how film and related visual media offer insights and commentary on the city as both a constructed object and a lived social experience. It brings together filmmakers, architects, digital artists, designers, and media journalists who critically read, reinterpret, and create narratives of the city. Analyzing a variety of international films and placing them in dialogue with video art, photographic narratives, and emerging digital image-based technologies, the authors explore the expanding range of “mediated” narratives of contemporary architecture and urban culture from both a media and a sociological standpoint.  The authors explore how moving-image narratives can create cinematic topographies, presenting familiar cities and modes of seeing in unfamiliar ways. The authors then turn to the new age of digital image making and consumption, revealing new techniques of representation, mediation, and augmentation of sensorial reality for city dwellers. The book’s emphasis on narrative also offers insights into critical societal issues including cultural identity, diversity, memory, and spatial politics, as they are both informed by and represented in various media.

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Ayşegül Akçay Kavakoğlu is an architect and assistant professor in the Faculty of Architecture, Department of Landscape Architecture at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. She is the editor of the Journal of Engineering Systems and Architecture. Türkan Nihan Hacıömeroğlu is assistant professor in the Department of Architecture at Eskişehir Osmangazi University in Eskisehir, Turkey. Lisa Landrum is associate professor and associate dean research in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. 

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