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Derya Özkan
(ed.)
Cool Istanbul
Urban Enclosures and Resistances
The book approaches »cool Istanbul« not only as a consumable brand but also as a socially produced and politically performed phenomenon.
Kosta Mathéy
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Silvia Matuk
(eds.)
Community-Based Urban Violence Prevention
Innovative Approaches in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Arab Region
Urban violence has become a major threat in most world cities. This book is about innovative prevention strategies by resident communities in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Arabic region.
Mikala Hyldig Dal
(ed.)
Cairo: Images of Transition
Perspectives on Visuality in Egypt 2011-2013
Cairo: Images of Transition offers profound insights on image politics in the wake of the Egyptian revolution of 2011.
Hans-Christian Petersen
(ed.)
Spaces of the Poor
Perspectives of Cultural Sciences on Urban Slum Areas and Their Inhabitants
How far can we look behind the facade of urban poverty? The volume takes up this question and presents new research perspectives that do not stop at collective categories.
The Berlin Reader
A Compendium on Urban Change and Activism
The ultimate Berlin Reader and only book in English focused on urban development processes, for everybody interested in the latest history of the German capital.
Thick Space
Approaches to Metropolitanism
Could the concepts of »metropolitanism« and »thick space« aid our understanding of urban change? This collection offers new approaches to the complex dynamics of large-scale urbanization.
Hans Peter Hahn
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Kristin Kastner
(eds.)
Urban Life-Worlds in Motion
African Perspectives
This book examines the development of new lifestyles and cultural phenomena in fast growing, vibrant and creative African cities as well as the transnational networks these dynamic processes are based on.
Urban Hacking
Cultural Jamming Strategies in the Risky Spaces of Modernity
Guerrilla art and communication: A book about the chances of subversive intervention and re-appropriation practices in contested urban spaces.
Creative Networks and the City
Towards a Cultural Political Economy of Aesthetic Production
After the creative industries hype, a proper analysis is overdue. With the help of cultural science, this volume unfolds a political economy of urban creative networks, also pointing out the limits of controlling them politically.
Frank Eckardt
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Kathrin Wildner
(eds.)
Public Istanbul
Spaces and Spheres of the Urban
Istanbul is one of the largest and most dynamic metropolises on the European continent. In the context of processes of globalization and local urban planning projects urban space is continously contested. In this anthology forms, meanings and images of these urban spaces are discussed by architects, historians, and social scientists. Through interdisciplinary approaches of theory and case studies the book delivers a deep insight into the construction and constitution of public spaces and spheres in contemporary Istanbul.