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Author:   Leslie Atzmon (Eastern Michigan University, USA) ,  Pamela Stewart (Eastern Michigan University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.800kg
ISBN:  

9781350224858

ISBN 10:   1350224855
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   14 May 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Contributors Introduction, Leslie Atzmon and Pamela Stewart Part I: Ritual and Performance Chapter 1.1. Building the New Nazareth: Sacred History and Sacred Space at an English Shrine, Emily Price Chapter 1.2. Sacred and Profane: History, Power, and Consumption in Aztec Placemaking, Kristi Peterson Chapter 1.3. Nineteenth-century Panoramas as Virtual Placemaking, Carla Hermann Chapter 1.4. Creative Placemaking at Lamson’s Department Store in Toledo: Site-Specific Immersive Installation and the Recovery of Location, Locale, and Sense of Place, Allie Terry-Fritsch Part II: Exclusion and Appropriation Chapter 2.5. Creating Place in the Chumash Missions of Spanish California, Nenette Marie Arroyo Chapter 2.6. Mapping the Neighborhood, Making Place: An Alternative Map in Late Meiji Tokyo, Mengfei Pan Chapter 2.7. Edge Space: Creative Engagements in a Guerilla Sculpture Garden, Elizabeth Currans Chapter 2.8. Morphing Spaces and Black Places: Place to Space in the Filmic North-South, Kayci Merritté Chapter 2.9. Between Stone and Poem: The Gendered Politics of Visual Ecology in Early Modern China, Daniel Knorr Part III: Recovery and Loss Chapter 3.10. Drawing The Ring of Steel, Kate Catterall Chapter 3.11. Narcoaesthetics: Contemporary Mexican Art and The Crisis of Place, Monica Salazar Chapter 3.12 The Kom-on-Inn as a Third Place: Paintings, Conversations, and Community-creation in Duluth Minnesota, Jennifer Webb Chapter 3.13. VISUAL ESSAY Digital Arctic: Through Machine Eyes, Carolyn Kirschner Chapter 3.14. Seen and Unseen: Mediated Cultural Landscapes of the Everyday on Zoom, Ellen Christensen Index

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Visual Ecologies of Placemaking brings together a rich and diverse collection of scholarly essays that open up new perspectives and deepen our understanding of placemaking. Through multiple historical, literary and practice research methods and varied approaches to visual and sensory experiences, this cross-disciplinary and important volume offers inspiration for future collaborations between art and design practices and wider fields. * Simon Woolham, Lecturer in Fine Art, University of Huddersfield, UK *

Author Information

Leslie Atzmon is Professor of Graphic Design and Design History at Eastern Michigan University, USA. Pamela Stewart is Assistant Professor of Art History at Eastern Michigan University, USA.

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