Urban mindscapes of Europe /
Urban mindscapes of Europe /
edited by Godela Weiss-Sussex with Franco Bianchini.
- 1 online resource (299 pages) : illustrations.
- European studies : an interdisciplinary series in European culture, history and politics ; 23 .
- European Studies 23. .
"This volume is based on papers presented at the 'Urban Mindscapes of Europe' conference held in Leicester on 29 April 2004"--Page [6].
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary Material / AUTHORS IN THIS VOLUME / INTRODUCTION: EUROPEAN URBAN MINDSCAPES: CONCEPTS, CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS AND POLICY APPLICATIONS / THE GESTALT OF THE URBAN IMAGINARY / RESEARCHING THE URBAN IMAGINARY: RESISTING THE ERASURE OF PLACES / ‘AN AVENUE THAT LOOKS LIKE ME’: RE-PRESENTING THE MODERN CITYSCAPE / URBAN MINDSCAPES REFLECTED IN SHOP WINDOWS / ENCOUNTERING THE CITY: ON ‘NOT TAKING YOURSELF WITH YOU’ / STRANGE CITY: BELFAST GOTHIC / ‘SEEING THE FUTURE’: URBAN DYSTOPIA IN WELLS AND LANG / STRANGERS (TO) THEMSELVES: CITYSCAPES AND MINDSCAPES IN 1980s EUROPEAN CINEMA / ONCE IN TV’S ROYAL CITY: TELEVISION COVERAGE OF ROYAL MEDIA EVENTS / CARTOONS AND THE COMIC EXPOSURE OF THE EUROPEAN CITY OF CULTURE / DRIFTING BRIDGES: SEMANTIC CHANGES OF THE BRIDGE METAPHOR IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY BUDAPEST / RECONSTRUCTING THE ANCIENT CITY: IMAGINING THE ATHENIAN POLIS / THE MYTH OF BERLIN: THE IMAGINED AND THE STAGED CITY / BERLIN LITERATURE AND ITS USE IN THE MARKETING OF THE ‘NEW BERLIN’ / SITES AND SIGHTS: THE URBAN MUSEUM IN A CHANGING URBAN STRUCTURE / IDENTITY BY INVOCATION OR BY DESIGN? HOW PLANNING IS CONJURING UP A NEW IDENTITY FOR MALMÖ / CONFESSIONS OF A PLACE MARKETER / Godela Weiss-Sussex and Franco Bianchini -- Godela Weiss-Sussex and Franco Bianchini -- Franco Bianchini -- Rolf Lindner -- Jude Bloomfield -- Betty Nigianni -- Giandomenico Amendola -- Nicolas Whybrow -- Neal Alexander -- Keith Williams -- Barry Langford -- Hugh O’Donnell -- Matthew Reason -- Levente Polyák -- Stuart Price -- Klaus Siebenhaar -- Godela Weiss-Sussex -- Doris Teske -- Lia Ghilardi -- Paul Brookes and Franco Bianchini.
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Urban mindscapes are structures of thinking about a city, built on conceptualisations of the city’s physical landscape as well as on its image as transported through cultural representation, memory and imagination. This book pursues three main strands of inquiry in its exploration of these ‘landscapes of the mind’ in a European context. The first strand concerns the theory and methodology of researching urban mindscapes and urban ‘imaginaries’. The second strand investigates some of the representations, symbols and collective images that feed into our understanding of European cities. It discusses representations of the city in literature, film, television and other cultural forms, which, in James Donald’s phrase, constitute ‘archives of urban images’. The third and last section of the volume concentrates on the relationship between the collective mindscapes of cities, urban policy and the practice of city marketing.
9789401203623
10.1163/9789401203623 DOI
Since 1945
City and town life--Europe--Congresses.
Cities and towns--Europe--Congresses.
Cities and towns.
City and town life.
Civilization.
Sociology, Urban.
Europe--Civilization--1945---Congresses.
Europe.
Conference papers and proceedings.
HT131 / .U697 2006eb
307.76
"This volume is based on papers presented at the 'Urban Mindscapes of Europe' conference held in Leicester on 29 April 2004"--Page [6].
Includes bibliographical references.
Preliminary Material / AUTHORS IN THIS VOLUME / INTRODUCTION: EUROPEAN URBAN MINDSCAPES: CONCEPTS, CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS AND POLICY APPLICATIONS / THE GESTALT OF THE URBAN IMAGINARY / RESEARCHING THE URBAN IMAGINARY: RESISTING THE ERASURE OF PLACES / ‘AN AVENUE THAT LOOKS LIKE ME’: RE-PRESENTING THE MODERN CITYSCAPE / URBAN MINDSCAPES REFLECTED IN SHOP WINDOWS / ENCOUNTERING THE CITY: ON ‘NOT TAKING YOURSELF WITH YOU’ / STRANGE CITY: BELFAST GOTHIC / ‘SEEING THE FUTURE’: URBAN DYSTOPIA IN WELLS AND LANG / STRANGERS (TO) THEMSELVES: CITYSCAPES AND MINDSCAPES IN 1980s EUROPEAN CINEMA / ONCE IN TV’S ROYAL CITY: TELEVISION COVERAGE OF ROYAL MEDIA EVENTS / CARTOONS AND THE COMIC EXPOSURE OF THE EUROPEAN CITY OF CULTURE / DRIFTING BRIDGES: SEMANTIC CHANGES OF THE BRIDGE METAPHOR IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY BUDAPEST / RECONSTRUCTING THE ANCIENT CITY: IMAGINING THE ATHENIAN POLIS / THE MYTH OF BERLIN: THE IMAGINED AND THE STAGED CITY / BERLIN LITERATURE AND ITS USE IN THE MARKETING OF THE ‘NEW BERLIN’ / SITES AND SIGHTS: THE URBAN MUSEUM IN A CHANGING URBAN STRUCTURE / IDENTITY BY INVOCATION OR BY DESIGN? HOW PLANNING IS CONJURING UP A NEW IDENTITY FOR MALMÖ / CONFESSIONS OF A PLACE MARKETER / Godela Weiss-Sussex and Franco Bianchini -- Godela Weiss-Sussex and Franco Bianchini -- Franco Bianchini -- Rolf Lindner -- Jude Bloomfield -- Betty Nigianni -- Giandomenico Amendola -- Nicolas Whybrow -- Neal Alexander -- Keith Williams -- Barry Langford -- Hugh O’Donnell -- Matthew Reason -- Levente Polyák -- Stuart Price -- Klaus Siebenhaar -- Godela Weiss-Sussex -- Doris Teske -- Lia Ghilardi -- Paul Brookes and Franco Bianchini.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Urban mindscapes are structures of thinking about a city, built on conceptualisations of the city’s physical landscape as well as on its image as transported through cultural representation, memory and imagination. This book pursues three main strands of inquiry in its exploration of these ‘landscapes of the mind’ in a European context. The first strand concerns the theory and methodology of researching urban mindscapes and urban ‘imaginaries’. The second strand investigates some of the representations, symbols and collective images that feed into our understanding of European cities. It discusses representations of the city in literature, film, television and other cultural forms, which, in James Donald’s phrase, constitute ‘archives of urban images’. The third and last section of the volume concentrates on the relationship between the collective mindscapes of cities, urban policy and the practice of city marketing.
9789401203623
10.1163/9789401203623 DOI
Since 1945
City and town life--Europe--Congresses.
Cities and towns--Europe--Congresses.
Cities and towns.
City and town life.
Civilization.
Sociology, Urban.
Europe--Civilization--1945---Congresses.
Europe.
Conference papers and proceedings.
HT131 / .U697 2006eb
307.76