Editorial – City Imaginings and Urban Everyday Life
Editorial
WiderScreen 1–2/2018 focuses on the spatially and temporally multidimensional axis that spans between imagining and inhabiting the city. The starting point of the double special issue is the observation that diverse forms of imagining entwine with practices of urban living and governance, and structure how the city appears in different media and…
Imagi(ni)ng Urban Transformation in Post-Détente Havana
Peer-reviewed article
The article has two foci: It first discusses visual statements on U.S.-Cuba relations, produced by official and online representations. It then examines closer some specific urban imagi(ni)ngs of Havana from the perspective of official and grassroots actors in shared space in Havana.
Benita Heiskanen benita.heiskanen [a] utu.fi Director John Morton Center…
Urban Murals and the Post-Protest Imagery of Networked Publics: The Remediated Aftermath of Ukraine’s Euromaidan on Instagram
Peer-reviewed article
This article investigates the potential of networked publics and affective meaning-making by examining the remediation of urban murals in post-protest Kyiv, Ukraine, on Instagram.
Tetyana Lokot tanya.lokot [a] dcu.ie Assistant Professor School of Communications Dublin City University, Ireland
Hues on a Shell: Cyber-Dystopia and the Hong Kong Façade in the Cinematic City
Peer-reviewed article
This article addresses the visual specificities of the imaginations, “reimaginings”, and interpretations of Hong Kong’s urban space as represented in the American adaptation of Ghost in the Shell (Sanders 2017).
Brian Sze-hang Kwok sdbriank [a] polyu.edu.hk Assistant Professor School of Design The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Anneke Coppoolse anneke.coppoolse [a] polyu.edu.hk…
Pienoismalli menetetyn kaupunkimaiseman kuvitelmana – Kulttuurinen elinkaarianalyysi Viipurin pienoismallista
Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli
Artikkeli selvittää miten ja ehkä miksi pienoismalleja rakennetaan. Tutkimus perustuu uuteen menetelmään, kulttuuriseen elinkaarianalyysiin, ja sen kohteena on Viipurin kaupungin pienoismallin rakentumisen vaiheet.
Simo Laakkonen simo.laakkonen [a] utu.fi VTT, maisemantutkimuksen yliopistonlehtori Maisemantutkimus Turun yliopisto
Susanna Siro susanna.siro [a] utu.fi FM, tohtorikoulutettava Maisemantutkimus Turun yliopisto
The Graffiti Storyline and Urban Planning: Key Narratives in the Planning, Marketing, and News Texts of Santalahti and Hiedanranta
Peer-reviewed article
This article regards urban planning as a form of storytelling and argues that there is significance in whose stories and which storylines are acknowledged to belong to the narrative fabric of a place and how the stories of future districts are communicated to the public through narratives during a planning project.
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Kick the Dead Rabbit: Tuxedos, Movies, and Cosmopolitan Urban Imaginaries in Macao
Overview
This article is a study of cosmopolitan imagery present in movies and videos used to promote Macao as a tourist destination and place to experience the world in miniature.
Benjamin Kidder Hodges bhodges [a] umac.mo Department of Communication University of Macau
Constructing the Moral Landscape of a City: The Narrative Exclusion of Delhi’s “Floating Populations”
Essay
The essay analyses narrative constructions of (threatening) floating populations of migrant labourers and the (threatened) urban landscape of New Delhi, India.
Somdatta Bhattacharya jijabh [a] gmail.com DR, Assistant Professor Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur West Bengal, India
‘Loitering’ in Urban Public Space – Wandering with a Street Poet in Berlin
Overview
The author accompanied a poet and street vendor on the streets of Berlin over a two-week period. The text collage discusses the phenomenon of ’loitering’ in urban public spaces in two parallel discourses.
Julia Weber julia.weber [a] zhdk.ch PhD-Student, joint PhD Institute for Contemporary Art Research Zurich University of the Arts…