Full Description
This insightful collection of papers on the contemporary cityscape explores the rhythms of urban flows, temporalities and interactions. It interprets the city as a complex whole, interwoven with networks and constant movement, and offers case studies of global metropolises from Manchester to Rio de Janeiro, Cardiff to Jakarta.Wide-ranging interdisciplinary analysisCombines urban theory with informed empirical researchIncludes studies of cities across the urbanizing world, from Rio de Janeiro to JakartaA profound and engaging commentary on the constantly evolving rhythms of the city
Contents
Series editor's introduction (Chris Shilling)1. Urban rhythms: mobilities, space and interaction in the contemporary city (Robin James Smith and Kevin Hetherington)2. Rhythm and noise: the city, memory and the archive (Kevin Hetherington)3. Contested urban rhythms: from the industrial city to the post-industrial urban archipelago (Stavros Stavrides)4. Points of departure: listening to rhythm in the sonoric spaces of the railway station (George Revill)5. Carnival crowds (Beatriz Jaguaribe)6. No time out: mobility, rhythmicity and urban patrol in the twenty-four hour city (Robin James Smith and Tom Hall)7. Majority time: operations in the midst of Jakarta (AbdouMaliq Simone and Achmad Uzair Fauzan)8. From momentary to historic: rhythms in the social production of urban space, the case of Calcada de Sant'Ana, Lisbon (Panu Lehtovuori and Hille Koskela)9. Communicating the rhythms of retromodernity: `confused and mixed Shanghai' (Amanda Lagerkvist)Notes on contributorsIndex
