Communicative Cities and Urban Space
Communicative Cities and Urban Space by Scott McQuire, published by Taylor & Francis Group in August 2022, spans 244 pages and is presented in English. This book critically analyzes the evolving relationship between urban space and communication, addressing how contemporary cities serve as platforms for diverse inhabitants to engage with one another. It explores the role of the built environment in facilitating public communication amidst the rapid changes of the digital era.
Readers will find a collection of essays that delve into the concept of the ‘communicative city,’ offering insights into how urban life shapes and is shaped by communication practices. The volume examines digitized urban spaces as unique communicative environments, prompting a reevaluation of qualities such as openness, autonomy, and diversity in urban communication. This work is particularly relevant for students and scholars interested in architecture, urban planning, and media studies, providing a framework for understanding the complexities of communication in modern urban settings.
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Cities have long been recognized as key sites for fostering new communication practices. However, as contemporary cities experience major changes, how do diverse inhabitants encounter each other? How do cities remember? What is the role of the built environment in fostering sites for public communication in a digital era? Communicative Cities and Urban Space offers a critical analysis of contemporary changes in the relation between urban space and communication.
This volume seeks to understand the situatedness of contemporary communication practices in diverse contexts of urban life, and to explore digitized urban space as a historically specific communicative environment. The essays in this book collectively propose that the concept of the ‘communicative city’ is a productive frame for rethinking the above questions in the context of 21st-century ‘media cities’. They challenge us to reconsider qualities such as openness, autonomy and diversity in contemporary urban communication practices, and to identify factors that might expand or constrict communicative possibilities.
Students and scholars of communication studies and urban studies would benefit from this book.
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