Imagining Urban Complexity

Preamble

Urban complexities: a humanities toolkit of tropes, media, genres

I

Tropes

1. What holds cities together?

Body Politic - Network - Belt: Hong Kong & Atlanta

2. Cities as paradigms of nature-culture

Jungle - Desert - Garden : Mexico City & Canberra

3. Urban distributions of access

Archive - Labyrinth - Zone: Istanbul & Moscow

4. Cities as centers of expectation and disillusion

Utopia - Dystopia - Non-Place: Paris & Brasilia

II

Media

5. Bringing urban selves and world into perspective

Theatre - Spectacle: Amsterdam & Naples

6. Connecting the private and the masses

Newspaper - Radio: Chicago & Cairo

7. Battlegrounds of representation and motors of desire

Television - Cinema: Beijing & Bangkok

8. Media relating dividuals and scapes

Digital - Social Media: Mumbai & Nairobi

III

Genres

9. Cities as forms of emplotment

Narrative - Documentary: Rio de Janeiro & Seattle

10. Urban life fragmented and improvized

Collage - Play: Lagos & Barcelona

11. Who does a city address and what do its rhythms express?

Lyric - Poetry: Isfahan & Jakarta

12. City secret, city trauma and the unrepresentable

Allegory - Comics: Jerusalem & Hiroshima

Postscript

The smart city: archipelagos of tests

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• Comunidades urbanas
• Geografia humana
• Sociologia

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