The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication

General Introduction

Part I: Trajectories of Mediated Urbanity

Chapter One: An Archaeology of the Media City: Towards a Critical Cultural History of

Mediated Urbanism

Chapter Two: The Semiotics of Urban Space

Chapter Three: Understanding Urban Screen Media and Cultures

Chapter Four: Urban Cinema and Photography: On Cities and "Cityness"

Chapter Five: Television and the City

Chapter Six: Journalism: An Urban Affair

Chapter Seven: Outdoor Advertising and the Remediation of Public Space(s):

Commercialization and Beyond

Chapter Eight: Consumption-centered Urban Restructuring and the Mediation of Urban Life:

From Spaces of Production to the Worlds of Seduction

Chapter Nine: On the Move: On Mobile Agoras, Networked Selves, and the Contemporary

City

Chapter Ten: Cities of Feet and Hands: Urban Habitations

Chapter Eleven: Subjectivity in the Media City: The Media Life and Representation of the Cosmopolitan Stranger

Part II: Media as Urban Infrastructure; City Spaces as Media

Chapter Twelve: The City Is Not a Computer: On Museums, Libraries, and Archives

Chapter Thirteen: Urban Monuments and the Spatialization of National Ideologies

Chapter Fourteen: Artificial Light and the Modernist Redefinition of Urban Space: Reading

the "Electropolis"

Chapter Fifteen: Urban Transport and Telecommunications: Dual Forms of the

Communicative Skeleton of the City

Chapter Sixteen: Global Cities as Mediated Spaces: The Role of Media in Forming

Contradictory Places

Chapter Seventeen: Our Own Devices: Living in the Smart Home

Chapter Eighteen: Surveillance as an Urban Way of Life

Chapter Nineteen: Urban Media as Infrastructure for Social Change

Chapter Twenty: In the Air Tonight: The Struggles of Communicating About Urban

Environmental Quality

Chapter Twenty-One: The Promises and Pitfalls of Cyber Urbanism: Governance and

Participation

Chapter Twenty-Two: Tools of the Trade: Urban Planning, Urban Media, and theRefashioning of Urban Space

Part III: Media Cities as Sites of Creative Industries and Post-Industrial Urbanism

Chapter Twenty-Three: From "Creative Cities" to "Media Cities": The Cases of Manchester

and Shanghai

Chapter Twenty-Four: Branding, Promotion, and Urban Tourism

Chapter Twenty-Five: "European Capital of Culture" and the Primacy of Cultural

Infrastructure in Post-Industrial Urbanism

Chapter Twenty-Six: The Mediat(izat)ion of Urban Leisure: Screening the Event

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Media Architecture: Post screens, Ante [Insert here]

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Fashion: An Urban Industry of Style

Chapter Twenty-Nine: Digital Public Art: Installations and Interventions

Chapter Thirty: Urban Nightlife Cultures

Chapter Thirty-One: Urban Gaming: Mobile Media, Spatial Practices and Everyday Play

Chapter Thirty-Two: From Subculture to Scene: Urban Media Practices from Below

Chapter Thirty-Three: Documenting Urban Neighborhoods and Claiming the Right to the City

Part IV: Spaces and Practices of Daily Life in Mediated Cities

Chapter Thirty-Four: The Senses and the City: Attention, Distraction and Media Technology

in Urban Environments

Chapter Thirty-Five: Navigating Hybrid Urban Spaces: Smartphones and Locative Media

Practices

Chapter Thirty-Six: Media Audiences in the Urban Context

Chapter Thirty-Seven: Temporary Inscriptions: Exploring Graffiti and Street Art in the Age of

Internetization of Everyday Urban Life

Chapter Thirty-Eight: Creating a Situation in the City: Embodied Spaces and the Act of

Crossing Boundaries

Chapter Thirty-Nine: Mediated Urban Protest: Practicing Dissent in Hybrid City Spaces

Chapter Forty: Community, Media, and the City

Chapter Forty-One: "The Street is the Message": Racial Violence and the White Control of

Mobility

Chapter Forty-Two: Living in the Disadvantaged End of "Dual Cities": Understanding the

Urban Poor and the Precariat

Chapter Forty-Three: The Politics of Sexuality in Mediated Cities

Chapter Forty-Four: Methodological Approaches in Urban Media and Communication

Research