The Routledge Companion to Media and the City

Erica Stein, Germaine R. Halegoua, Brendan Kredell, Erica Stein, Germaine R. Halegoua, Brendan Kredell

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781032289977
• eBook ISBN: 9781000606157
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Media Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

Bringing together leading scholars from around the world and across scholarly disciplines, this collection of 32 original chapters provides a comprehensive exploration of the relationships between cities and media.

The volume showcases diverse methods for studying media and the city and posits "media urbanism" as an approach to the co-construction and interactions among media texts and technologies, media users, media industries, media histories, and urban space. Chapters serve as a guide to humanities-based ways of studying urban imaginaries, infrastructures and architectures, development and redevelopment, and strategies and tactics as well as a provocation toward new lines of inquiry that further explore the dense interconnectedness of media and cities. Structured thematically, the chapters are organized into four distinct sections, introduced with editorial commentary that places the chapters into conversation with each other and frames them in relation to an overarching question, problem, or method. Part I: Imaginaries and cityscapes focuses on screen representations and mediated experiences of urban space produced and consumed by various actors; Part II: Architectures and infrastructures highlights the different ways in which built environments and socio-technical substrates that sustain differential mobilities, urban rhythms, and systems of circulation and exchange are intertwined with various forms of media and mediation; Part III: Development and redevelopment examines efforts by urban planners and designers, municipal governments, and community organizers to utilize media forms to imagine and shape the construction of the space and meaning of the city; finally, Part IV: Strategies and tactics uses categories for practices of control and resistance to investigate media and struggles for power within urban environments from surveillance and place-branding to activist media and the right to the city.

The Routledge Companion to Media and the City provides a definitive reference for both scholars and students of urban cultures and media within the humanities.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: How to do things with media and the city
• Part I Imaginaries and cityscapes
• Part II Architectures and infrastructures
• Part III Development and redevelopment
• 17 Masterplanning: Urban redevelopment and the racialization of American urban cinematic space
• 18 A layered landscape of Western movie production: Combining geographical and historiographical methods at Old Tucson Studios
• 19 At home in the metropolis: Reimagining Beijing and Shanghai in the 21st century
• 20 The City at 42nd Street
• 21 Dreaming, documenting, disturbing: Independent environmental film in 1970s West Berlin
• 22 Screening Istanbul and the rebelliousness of poor images
• 23 Care-ful governance in the smart city
• 24 “City Stories”: Digital placemaking and public history in Singapore
• 25 “What am I supposed to do with all these white people?”: Fifty years of gentrification anxiety on screen
• Part IV Strategies and tactics
• 26 Studio urbanism
• 27 Locational love and labor: Hollywood media production pre- and post-pandemic
• 28 Who controls the media: The racial politics of public interest and local television in Detroit
• 29 From extraterritoriality to extratemporality: Contemporary media and politics in Hong Kong
• 30 Detroit diplomats represent: Hip hop, gentrification, and the city
• 31 Rethinking micromobility as mobilities justice: Location-based traffic apps in Rio de Janeiro
• 32 Not at all evenly distributed
• Bibliography
• Index