Intro -- Urban Assemblage -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Reading into the Spaces between Different Speeds, Dates and Subjectivities -- Breaking the Meaning of Urban Space -- Silent Lines: Urban Space and the Aesthetics of Crime -- Sites of Solidarity: How a Transcultural Community of Young Adults in Ireland Use Media Production to Cultivate Solidarity and Deal with the Impact -- Shop Windows as the Texts of Urban Popular Culture: Between the Dominant Ideology and Resistance -- Utopia and Dystopia in Narratives about Tuscany -- Artistic Spaces and Bohemian Lifestyles: Cafés as Spaces of Cultural Consumption -- Invoking Hell: Revisiting the Ten Courts in Haw Par Villa -- The Evolution of the Hipster: From Broyard's Hipster and the Beats to the 21st Century.
This volume presents eight perspectives on urban space by investigating Parkour, anxiety in Johannesburg, young adults in Cork City, shop windows and resistance, Tuscan utopias, Neo-bohemian cafés, moralising theme parks, and the evolution of the hipster.
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Urbanization. Cities and towns-Growth. Civil society.