Preliminary Material / William Fourie -- Breaking the Meaning of Urban Space / Ties de Ruijter -- Silent Lines: Urban Space and the Aesthetics of Crime / William Fourie -- Sites of Solidarity: How a Transcultural Community of Young Adults in Ireland Use Media Production to Cultivate Solidarity and Deal with the Impact of ‘Big’ Events / Laura Kinsella -- Shop Windows as the Texts of Urban Popular Culture: Between the Dominant Ideology and Resistance / Karina Stasiuk-Krajewska -- Utopia and Dystopia in Narratives about Tuscany / Giulio Giovannoni -- Artistic Spaces and Bohemian Lifestyles: Cafés as Spaces of Cultural Consumption / Weronika Maćków -- Invoking Hell: Revisiting the Ten Courts in Haw Par Villa / Hsiao Yuz Tan -- The Evolution of the Hipster: From Broyard’s Hipster and the Beats to the 21st Century / Ivana Bančić.

From subversive shop windows to moralising theme parks, Urban Assemblage presents eight diverse perspectives on urban space and culture. The volume spotlights cities as far afield as Johannesburg and Cork City to see how different cultures, media, mobilities and narratives come to form the spaces we occupy; it looks at the Tuscan utopia, the evolution of the hipster, the Neo-bohemian café culture of gentrification, and breaking the rigid urban way of life through the fluid (identity) movement of Parkour. Not only is the subject matter diverse, but the interdisciplinary spirit at the core of this volume elicits convergences and divergences, intersections and parallels by drawing on wide-ranging methodologies and disciplines. Urban Assemblage is an assemblage of eight different voices, informed and cutting-edge in their explications of various urban spaces.

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