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Digital Makings of the Cosmopolitan City? Young People’s Urban Imaginaries of London [PDF]
International Journal of Communication, 2016 This article focuses on young Londoners’ everyday digital connectedness in the global city and examines the urban imaginaries their connections generate and regulate.
Koen Leurs, Myria Georgiou
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Future imaginaries of urban school reform
Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016 Drawing on analytic heuristics from critical discourse analysis and cultural political economy (Jessop, 2010; Wodak, 2002), this article examines the temporal premises and “futures” embedded in a report and reform proposal created in a mid-sized ...
Jan Nespor
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Quelle(s) singularité(s) des imaginaires urbains de la fiction climatique au cinéma ?
ReS Futurae, 2023 The article proposes to question the specificity of the place of urban imaginaries in cli‑fi films. Are these imaginaries radically different from the most common representations of urban spaces in science fiction narratives?
Pierre‑Jacques Olagnier
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Digital Games—Virtual Worlds—Real Impact
Proceedings, 2022 This paper argues for actively engaging with current technological imaginaries by gamification of potential corresponding sociotechnical imaginaries.
Sabine Thuermel
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Built Heritage, 2023 This intervention examines the extant literature on historical imaginaries and historic urban branding in China. It suggests that while research in this field has increasingly moved away from an economic (or an implicit neo-Marxist) model, there is still
Andrew Malcolm Law
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Exploring velotopian urban imaginaries: where Le Corbusier meets Constant? [PDF]
Mobilities, 2019 Cycling is increasingly seen as a solution to a large variety of urban problems, and as such continues to inspire innovations that aim to upscale cycling to unprecedented levels. Taken to the extreme, these ideas promise a future ‘Velotopia’ in which cycling constitutes a dominant or single mobility mode.
Anna Nikolaeva, Samuel Nello-Deakin
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The mechanics of prodiction of “urban imaginaries”: two examples for the case of Santiago-Chile
Revista de Urbanismo, 2015 Research on urban imaginaries has proliferated in Latin America for the past years. However, apparently no one has tackled the issue of how the image of the city comes to be.
Luis Alfredo Campos Medina +1 more
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Rethinking mobility at the urban-transportation-geography nexus [PDF]
, 2015 Building on the main sections of the book, this concluding chapter identifies four thematic areas for future research into the urban-transportation-geography nexus as follows: (1) the everyday experience of transport and mobility in the “ordinary city”; (
Jonas, Andrew E.G.
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Infrastructural Speculations: Tactics for Designing and Interrogating Lifeworlds [PDF]
, 2020 This paper introduces “infrastructural speculations,” an orientation toward speculative design that considers the complex and long-lived relationships of technologies with broader systems, beyond moments of immediate invention and design.
Bennett Cynthia L. +48 more
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Humanities, 2021 Video games have become important but understudied narrative media, which link into as well as perpetuate popular forms of cultural memory. They evoke and mediate space (or the illusion thereof) in unique ways, literally putting into play Doreen Massey’s
Helena Esser
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