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  • Aesthetics of Gentrification

    Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City

    Edited by Christoph Lindner, Gerard Sandoval ...
    Series series Cities and Cultures
    Gentrification is reshaping cities worldwide, resulting in seductive spaces and exclusive communities that aspire to innovation, creativity, sustainability, and technological sophistication. Gentrification is also contributing to growing social-spatial division and urban inequality and precarity. In a time of escalating housing crisis, unaffordable cities, and racial tension, scholars speak of eco ... Read more

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  • Imagining New York City

    Literature, Urbanism, and the Visual Arts, 1890-1940

    by Christoph Lindner ...
    Using examples from architecture, film, literature, and the visual arts, this wide-ranging book examines the significance of New York City in the urban imaginary between 1890 and 1940. In particular, Imagining New York City considers how and why certain city spaces-such as the skyline, the sidewalk, the slum, and the subway-have come to emblematize key aspects of the modern urban condition. In so ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Inert Cities

    Globalization, Mobility and Suspension in Visual Culture

    by Christoph Lindner, Dr. Stephanie Hemelryk Donald ...
    We usually associate contemporary urban life with movement and speed. But what about those instances when the forms of mobility associated with globalized cities - the flow of capital, people, labor and information - freeze, or decelerate? How can we assess the value of interruption in a city? What does valuing stillness mean in regards to the forward march of globalization? When does inertia ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Deconstructing the High Line

    Postindustrial Urbanism and the Rise of the Elevated Park

    by Christoph Lindner, Brian Rosa, Tom Baker, Julian Brash, Phil Birge-Liberman, James Corner, Scott Larson, Kevin Loughran, Nate Millington0, Darren Patrick1, Danya Sherman2, Alan Smart3, Daan Wesselman4 ...
    2017 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is one of the world’s most iconic new urban landmarks. Since the opening of its first section in 2009, this unique greenway has exceeded all expectations in terms of attracting visitors, investment, and property development to Manhattan’s West Side. Frequently celebrated ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Resisting James Bond

    Power and Privilege in the Daniel Craig Era

    Edited by Christoph Lindner, Lisa Funnell ...
    Beginning with Casino Royale (2006) and ending with No Time to Die (2021), the Daniel Craig era of James Bond films coincides with the rise of various justice movements challenging deeply entrenched systems of inequality and oppression, ranging from sexism, racism, and immigration to 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, reproductive justice and climate change. While focus is often placed on individual actions and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Cities Interrupted

    Visual Culture and Urban Space

    Edited by Shirley Jordan, Christoph Lindner ...
    Cities Interrupted explores the potential of visual culture – in the form of photography, film, performance, architecture, urban design, and mixed media – to strategically interrupt processes of globalization in contemporary urban spaces.Looking at cities such as Amsterdam, Beijing, Doha, London, New York, and Paris, the book brings together original essays to reveal how the concept of ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries

    Edited by Christoph Lindner, Miriam Meissner ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries delves into examples of urban imaginaries across multiple media and geographies: from new visions of smart, eco, and resilient cities to urban dystopias in popular culture; from architectural renderings of starchitecture and luxury living to performative activism for new spatial justice; and from speculative experiments in urban planning, fiction, and ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Urban Space and Cityscapes

    Perspectives from Modern and Contemporary Culture

    Edited by Christoph Lindner ...
    Series series Questioning Cities
    From the verticals of New York, Hong Kong and Singapore to the sprawls of London, Paris and Jakarta, this interdisciplinary volume of new writing examines constructions, representations, imaginations and theorizations of 'cityscapes' in modern and contemporary culture. With specially-commissioned essays from the fields of cultural theory, architecture, film, literature, visual art and urban ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Global Garbage

    Urban imaginaries of waste, excess, and abandonment

    Edited by Christoph Lindner, Miriam Meissner ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sustainable Urbanism
    Global Garbage examines the ways in which garbage, in its diverse forms, is being produced, managed, experienced, imagined, circulated, concealed, and aestheticized in contemporary urban environments and across different creative and cultural practices. The book explores the increasingly complex relationship between globalization and garbage in locations such as Beirut, Detroit, Hong Kong, London, ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Globalization, Violence and the Visual Culture of Cities

    Edited by Christoph Lindner ...
    Series series Questioning Cities
    What connects garbage dumps in New York, bomb sites in Baghdad, and skyscrapers in São Paulo? How is contemporary visual culture – extending from art and architecture to film and digital media – responding to new forms of violence associated with global and globalizing cities? Addressing such questions, this book is the first interdisciplinary volume to examine the complex relationship between ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Design Theory

    by Charles C. Lindner, Christopher A. Rodger ...
    Series series Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications
    Design Theory, Second Edition presents some of the most important techniques used for constructing combinatorial designs. It augments the descriptions of the constructions with many figures to help students understand and enjoy this branch of mathematics.This edition now offers a thorough development of the embedding of Latin squares and combinatorial designs. It also presents some pure ... Read more

    $242.99 CAD

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  • The Urban Design Reader

    Edited by Michael Larice, Elizabeth Macdonald ...
    Series series Routledge Urban Reader Series
    The second edition of The Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory and practice of urban design. Nearly 50 generous selections include seminal contributions from Howard, Le Corbusier, Lynch, and Jacobs to more recent writings by Waldheim, Koolhaas, and Sorkin. Following the widespread success of the first edition of ... Read more

    $170.99 CAD