Inert Cities

1. Introduction: Globalization and Interruption
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald (UNSW) and Christoph Lindner (University of
Amsterdam)

PART 1 - STILLNESS
2. Urban Photography as Interruption
Shirley Jordan (Queen Mary, University of London)
3. 'At the still point of the turning world': The Paradox of the Urban Portrait
Hugh Campbell (University College Dublin)
4. Parkour and the Stilled Image
Bill Marshall (University of London)
5. Holding Patterns: Affirming Stillness for Commuting Subjects
David Bissell (Australian National University)

PART 2 - DECELERATION
6. Viennese Inertia: Deceleration and Local Identity Construction
Heide Kunzelmann (University of London) and Elisabeth Mayerhofer (Vienna)
7. Decelerating Global Amsterdam: Amnesiac Urbanism and Architectures of Immobility
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Christoph Lindner (University of Amsterdam)
8. Inertia and the Everyday during the Seige of Beirut
Claire Launchbury (University of Leeds)

PART 3 - SLOW MOTION
9. Children and the Global City: Disguising Decay in Chinese and European Film
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald (University of New South Wales)
10. Intermedia, Scale, and Postmodern Lisbon
Lucia Nagib (University of Leeds)
11. Slow Motion Pictures: Casting Inertia in Contemporary Berlin Films
Andrew Webber (University of Cambridge)
12. Afterword
Laura Mulvey (Birkbeck, University of London)