Urban plots, organizing cities (Ashgate, 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; Contents; About the Editors; Notes on Contributors; Foreword: The City Narrated, the City Organized?; Introduction: Urban Plots, Organizing Cities; 1 The Graphical Performation of a Public Space: The Subway Signs and their Scripts; 2 The Wall and the Mobile Phone: Organizing, Governing, Resisting; 3 Redefining the Right to the City: Representations of Public Space as Part of the Urban Struggles; 4 Hybrid Cities: Narratives of Urban Development and Popular Culture, the Case of Medellín (Colombia); 5 Organizing Urban Space: Tools, Processes and Public Action
6 Public Sphere in Times of Governance: Public Action, Disputed Building and Local Cultural System in a Northern City of Italy7 Transition, Memory and Narrations in the Urban Space: The Case of East German Cities; 8 Transforming Spaces: Translation as a Practice that Reveals Changing E-Motional Structures in Space; Bibliography; Index
By focusing on the interplay between material, social and narrative dimensions of the city, this book examines urban complexity and advances the notion of the city as an urban texture. Taking an innovative, interdisciplinary approach, it argues that urban fabric is 'manufactured' in this interplay, examines less visible ways in which the city is organized and shows how these can reveal better ways of dealing with conflict and enhancing urban sociability