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Visualizing the Street New Practices of Documenting, Navigating and Imagining the City
254 Pages
by
Routledge
254 Pages
by
Routledge
From user-generated images of streets to professional architectural renderings, and from digital maps and drone footages to representations of invisible digital ecologies, this collection of essays analyses the emergent practices of visualizing the street. Today, advancements in digital technologies of the image have given rise to the production and dissemination of imagery of streets and urban... Read more
Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Visualizing the Street 1 Pedram Dibazar and Judith Naeff Documenting Streets on Social Media 2. Derivative Work and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement: Three Perspectives - Wing Ki Lee 3. Strange in the Suburbs: Reading Instagram Images for Responses to Change - Megan Hicks 4. Droning Syria: The Aerial View and the New Aesthetics of Urban Ruination -László Munteán 5. The Affective Territory of Poetic Graffiti from Sidewalk to Networked Image- Asl? Duru Navigating Urban Data Flows 6. Situated Installations for Urban Data Visualization: Interfacing the Archive-City - Nanna Verhoeff & Karin van Es 7. Cartography at Ground Level: Spectrality and Streets in Jeremy Wood's My Ghost and Meridians - Simon Ferdinand 8. Street Smarts for Smart Streets - Rob Coley Imagining Urban Communities 9. Chewing Gum and Graffiti: Aestheticized City Rhetoric in post-2008 Athens - Ginette Verstraete and Cristina Ampatzidou 10. The Uncanny Likeness of the Street: Visioning Community Through the Lens of Social Media - Karen Cross 11. On or Beyond the Map? Google Maps and Street View in Rio de Janeiro's Favelas - Simone Kalkman Bibliography, Index.
Biography
Pedram Dibazar is a lecturer in the Humanities with a focus on cultural analysis at Amsterdam University College.
Judith Naeff is Assistant Professor Cultures of the Middle East at Leiden University.
