Writing cities : working papers. Volume 1, How do views shape words? How do words shape cities? / edited by Suzanne Hall, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitía and Cecilia Dinardi.

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Writing cities : working papers. Volume 1, How do views shape words? How do words shape cities? / edited by Suzanne Hall, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitía and Cecilia Dinardi.

Publication:

London : Cities Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2011.

Description:

153 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
"A collection of working papers by graduate researchers of the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MIT Media LAB, Harvard Graduate School of Design and Harvard Law School."
Revised papers originally submitted for the 2009 Writing Cities Workshop.
"ISSN 2042-4361 Working Papers"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: The Writing Cities collaboration / Suzanne Hall, Melissa Fernández Arrigoitía and Cecilia Dinardi -- Writing Cities : a roundtable / David Frisby [and others] -- I. Writing politics through motifs. Cities under Franco: a metonymical approach / Olivia Muñoz-Rojas -- Digging, sowing, tending, harvesting : making war-fair / Gina Badger -- For whose benefit? : the role of consultation in the compulsory purchase of the site for the 2012 Olympic Games in delivering a 'sustainable communities' legacy / Juliet Davis -- II. Writing history through artefacts. Writing urban stories from the walls of a building : the case of Post and Telecommunications Palace in Buenos Aires / Cecilia Dinardi -- The canal in the city of gardens / Nida Rehman -- The Mughal pavilion / Ninad Pandit and Laura Lee Schmidt -- III. Writing culture through technologies. Beyond use : material consciousness and creative engagements with urban infrastructure / Susanne Seitlinger and Tad Hirsch -- Sensor narratives / Orkan Telhan -- The internet and the city : blogging and urban transformation on New York's Lower East Side / Lara Belkind -- IV. Writing visions through images. Questioning pictures of urban futures / Torsten Schroeder -- Skylines and the 'whole' city : protected and unprotected views from the South Bank towards the City of London / Gunter Gassner.

Subject:

Cities and towns.
Cities
Villes.
cities.

Form/genre:

Conference Papers (document genres)

Added entries:

Hall, Suzanne.
Fernández Arrigoitía, Melissa.
Dinardi, Cecilia.
London School of Economics and Political Science. Cities Programme.

How do views shape words? How do words shape cities?
Writing cities 1

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