The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries

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Table of Contents
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Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Urban imaginaries in theory and practice
	Why urban imaginaries?
	Spatial thinking and the urban imaginary
	Global challenges, “new” imaginaries
	Urban futures and the politics of imagination
	Overview of the companion
	References
PART I:Eco and resilient
	2. Thirsty cities: Who owns the right to water?
		Human right or corporate right?
		Flint: public health and the bottom line
		Detroit shutoffs: prelude to privatization?
		The bigger picture: planetary urbanization
		Conclusion
		References
	3. Rapid adaptation and mitigation planning
		Introduction
		Toward a just transition: the Northern Manhattan climate action manual
		Planning retreat: the Urban Land Institute’s adaptation action area framework
		References
	4. Urban nature and the ecological imaginary
		Introduction
		Aberrations and Utopias
		From design to function
		Ecology, modernity and the post-industrial metropolis
		Conclusions
		Acknowledgements
		References
	5. Litter and the urban imaginary: On chewing gum and street art
		Introduction
		References
	6. IHM-agining sustainability: Urban imaginaries in spaces of possibility
		Introduction
		IHM-aginations and IHM-aginaries of sustainability: five cases from
Hanover-Linden
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		References
	7. Formal encounters in two tales of toxicity: Bhopal, Animal’s People, Louisville, The Hard Weather Boating Party
		Introduction
		Bhopal
		Animal’s people
		Louisville
		The hard weather boating party
		References
PART II:Smart and digital
	8. Smart urban: Imaginary, interiority, intelligence
		Introduction
		Imagining the smart city
		The urban imaginary as interiority
		The urban imaginary as intelligence
		Re-imagining the urban imaginary
		References
	9. The origin of the smart city imaginary: From the dawn of modernity to the eclipse of reason
		Introduction: the smart city phenomenon
		Through the ages: the origins of smart urbanism
		The eclipse of reason
		Conclusion: the eclipse of urban reason
		References
	10. Construction performance: How the camera charts progress on site
		The city under construction
		Time in the image
		The time-lapse view
		Construction entities
		Absent labor
		Construction as epic theatre
		References
	11. Authoritarianism and the transparent smart city
		Introduction: smart city imaginaries
		Transparent dystopia: Russia, 1924
		Transparent utopia in the 2010s: the vitrification of modernity
		Technique: Ellul and the missing link between authoritarian and apolitical imaginaries
		Discussion and conclusion
		References
	12. Digital urban imaginaries: Space, time and culture wars in the cyber-city
		Introduction: re-centering the center
		Planetary urban political space and the populist imaginary
		The authoritarian city-state: society, space, and populist ruptures
		See you online! The relational battle for Singapore’s center
		Conclusion: locating the global urban cyber-imaginary
		References
	13. Urban exposure: Feminist crowd-mapping and the new urban imaginary
		Introduction
		Overview
		Crowd-mapping and cultures of participation
		The feminist imagination
		Free to be: women and girls as co-designers of cities
		Voice as reflexive agency
		Conclusion
		References
	14. Every breath you take: Captured movements in the hyperconnected city
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		Logoff
		Glossary
		References
PART III:Connected and consuming
	15. Imagining the open city: (Post-)Cosmopolitan urban imaginaries
		Introduction
		Literature review: imagining open cities
		Context of study
		Imagining and mediating the open city: #LondonIsOpen
		Digital imagining of the cosmopolitan city
		Sharing and contesting digital urban imaginaries
		Neoliberal cosmopolitanism
		Vernacular cosmopolitanism
		Post-cosmopolitanism
		Conclusions
		References
	16. Beyond East-meets-West: Contemporary Chinese art and urban imaginaries in cosmopolitan Shanghai
		Against the “Paris of the East” and other obfuscations
		East/West hybridity as cultural capital
		Representing virtual scenes and the real impacts of globalization
		Picturing conflicted world views and dancing alone
		Critical imagining, unveiling cracks in Shanghai’s East–West façades
		References
	17. Toward a photographic urbanism? Images iconizing cities and swaying urban transformation
		Introduction: the seduction of architectural photography
		Pictures by tourists, design professionals and of the city to come
		Observing iconic skyscrapers, skylines and waterfronts
		Where iconic architecture’s image matters
		Conclusions: signs and symptoms of photographic urbanism
		References
	18. Macau’s materialist milieu: Portuguese pavement stones and the political economy of the Chinese urban imaginary
		Introduction
		The political economy of the Portuguese calcada
		Materialist ontology and material urban politics
		Transformative experimentation and urban pedagogy
		Production of a Chinese urban imaginary
		Portuguese calcada, pedestrianized public space, and Chinese
tourist comportment
		Macau as a model city
		Pavement pedagogy
		Acknowledgements
		References
	19. “Like diamonds in the sky”: Imaginaries of urban girlhood
		Introduction
		Girlhood in the city
		Girls’ right to the city
		A room of their own
		The power of numbers
		Concluding notes on imaginaries of urban girlhood
		Acknowledgements
		References
	20. The city on the highway, revisited
		Introduction
		References
PART IV:Uneven and divided
	21. Brutalism, ruins, and the urban imaginary of gentrification
		Resuscitating brutalist politics
		Ruin lust and the imaginary of gentrification
		Aesthetics of urban poverty
		Airbnb and brutalism
		Acknowledgements
		References
	22. The end of the time of the city? Urbanization and the migrant in British cinema
		Introduction
		Urbanization, the specter of the city and migration
		Images of the city
		Images of urbanization
		Conclusion
		References
	23. Chicano Park’s urban imaginary: Ethnic ties bonded to place and redistributive urban justice
		Introduction
		Chicano Park as urban imaginary
		Representation and identity in Chicano Park
		Redistributive claims reshaping Chicano Park
		Discussion
		References
	24. Arts districts and the reimagining of neighborhood through arts and culture-based development
		Introduction
		Reimagining neighborhood through themed environments and the arts
		Creative placemaking and arts districts
		Reimagining Baltimore
		References
	25. Jia Zhangke’s cinematic vision of urban dystopia in contemporary China
		Urban dystopia in contemporary China
		Conceptual dystopia: mobility, liminality, spectrality
		Visual dystopia: debris, ruins, walls
		Emotional dystopia: estrangement, escape, exile
		Critical dystopia in cinema
		References
	26. ICONi©Cities: Global imaginaries of urban dispossession
		Introduction
		Africanizing the US ghetto: signs of the strange, monstrous, and intimate
		Tropicalizing the terrain of urban frontier: signs of nature, art, and beauty
		Slum architecture as commodity fetish
		Global imaginaries of urban poverty
		Acknowledgements
		References
	27. Imagining the entitled middle-class self in the global city: Tiny Times, small-town youth, and the New Shanghainese
		Introduction
		Urban China and its small towns
		Guo Jingming: imaginaries of a global city and narratives of outsiders
		Shanghai in literature, Shanghai spirit, and Tiny Times
		Distinction, New Shanghainese, and the middle-class self in
Tiny Times
		Conclusion
		References
PART V:Speculative and transformative
	28. Urban imaginaries and the palimpsest of the future
		Introduction
		The power of imagination
		World-building and the reflexivity between fact and fiction
		A visual history of the future
		Is there an art to being “smart”?
		False dichotomies and addressing complexity
		References
	29. Emergent imaginaries: Place, struggle, and survival
		Introduction
		Subaltern space and struggle
		The environmental justice (EJ) movement
		The right to the city alliance (RTTC)
		The movement for black lives (M4BL)
		Interconnectedness of issues and scales
		Subaltern communities freeing themselves (and by extension everyone else)
		Direct democracy
		Transformation and reform
		Conclusion
		References
	30. Queer urban imaginaries
		LGBTQ+ night-spaces in London
		The municipal lesbian and gay imaginary of the London Lesbian and Gay Centre
		References
	31. Crafted imagination: Future-builders and the contemporary logic of experimentalism
		Planning, institutionalized imaginaries, and imagination
		The future as service: the emerging landscape of future-builders
		Laboratories of the future: experimentalism, instrumental design, and institutional isolation
		The limits of crafted futures
		References
	32. Urban space and the posthuman imaginary
		Introduction
		Modern cartographies of urban space
		Posturban production
		Posthuman urbanism
		References
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