Re-imagining the City: Art; globalization and urban spaces investigates creative practices in urban space and the diverse ways that contemporary processes of globalization are transforming cultural experience and production. It maps how cultural productions in art; architecture; and communications media are contributing to the re-imagining of place and identity. Through a series of narratives and accounts; underpinned by theoretical and philosophical commentary; the writers examine how art and other forms of creative media can activate a re-imagining of urban place in this rapidly urbanizing world of today. This book recasts the ways cities may be understood; it articulates the innovative ways knowledge can be formed; framed; and transferred through cultural production and how that knowledge is mediated through the dynamic of aesthetic meaning and value in the public sphere.
2014-05-01 2014-05-01File Name: B01A15HS7Q
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Images of Northfield (Illinois)By R. F. KearneyFor years efforts have been made to preserve the history of Northfield; Illinois; and in a very short time; with a lot of help; ArLynn Presser has given us a wonderful picture-and-text story of Northfield from its early days to the present with a great emphasis on the people involved--from the German farmers to Samuel Insull; religious orders both male and female thru the people of Kraft and the American Society of Clinical Pathologists! There are lots of kids; lots of action (horse and buggies; a train wreck; religious processions; etc.) and a vivid overview of a pleasant little town north of Chicago. ArLynn should be the poster girl for Arcadia Publishings most welcome and far reaching series; Images of America; of which this is a part.
