Communicative cities in the 21st century : the urban communication reader III / Matthew D. Matsaganis, Victoria J. Gallagher, and Susan J. Drucker, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Matsaganis, Matthew D.

Series:

Urban communication ; volume 3.

Urban communication ; volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community development, Urban.

Cities and towns--Technological innovations.

Cities and towns.

City and town life.

Technological innovations.

Physical Description:

viii, 255 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2013]

Summary:

This book explores the concept of the "communicative city," developed initially by participants in an international Urban Communication Foundation initiative, by bringing together scholars from across the communication arts and sciences seeking to enhance our understanding of the dynamic relationship between urban residents and their social, physical, mediated, and built environments. The chapters are arranged in categories that speak to two larger themes: first, they all speak to at least one aspect of the qualifying and/or disqualifying characteristics of a communicative city. A second, larger theme is what we might refer to as a master trope of the urban experience and, indeed, of urban communication: inside/outside. The research presented here represents social scientific and humanistic approaches to communication, quantitative and qualitative methodologies, and positivist/normative and interpretive orientations, thereby providing a deeper understanding of the multi-level phenomena that unfold in urban communities. Book jacket.

Contents:

List of figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The making of communicative cities in the 21st century / Matthew Matsaganis and Victoria Gallagher

The performances of urban life

Defining a "livable city" : parks, suburbanization, and the shaping of community identity and ecological responsibility / Margaret R. LaWare

Communicative spaces and rhetorical enactments : how and why urban parks

Enhance (or fail to enhance) civic life / Victoria J. Gallagher, Kenneth Zagacki, and Kelly Norris Martin

Understanding urban foodways and communicative cities : a taste of Hong Kong's Yumcha culture as urban communication / Casey Man Kong Lum

The politics and technologies of urban life

Unconventional urban communication success : envisioning and engendering a revitalized New Cassel / Mary Ann Allison

Auditing communication systems to help urban policy makers / Leo W. Jeffres, Kimberly Neuendorf, Guowei Jian, and Kimberly S. Cooper

Containing RFID : questioning communication, technology, and culture / John Monberg

The fantasies and facades of urban life

Chinese tourists, themed casinos, and consumer pedagogy in Macao / Tim Simpson

Locating nihonmachi : urban erasure, memory, and visibility in Japantown, USA / Janis L. Edwards

Skins, tattoos, and architectural facades : or what you see is what you

Get' for the moment / Gary Gumpert and Susan Drucker

Origami urbanism amid the flat city : an omnitopian analysis of commercials depicting mutability in urban life / Andrew F. Wood

Afterword

Cross-currents inside and outside the communicative city / Gene Burd.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781433122606

143312260X

9781433122590

1433122596

OCLC:

837922754