Communicative cities in the 21st century : the urban communication reader III / Matthew D. Matsaganis, Victoria J. Gallagher, and Susan J. Drucker, editors.

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Book
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English
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New York : Peter Lang, [2013]
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viii, 255 pages ; 24 cm.

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    This book explores the concept of the "communicative city," developed initially by participants in an international Urban Communication Foundation initiative, by bringing together scholars from across the communication arts and sciences seeking to enhance our understanding of the dynamic relationship between urban residents and their social, physical, mediated, and built environments. The chapters are arranged in categories that speak to two larger themes: first, they all speak to at least one aspect of the qualifying and/or disqualifying characteristics of a communicative city. A second, larger theme is what we might refer to as a master trope of the urban experience and, indeed, of urban communication: inside/outside. The research presented here represents social scientific and humanistic approaches to communication, quantitative and qualitative methodologies, and positivist/normative and interpretive orientations, thereby providing a deeper understanding of the multi-level phenomena that unfold in urban communities. Book jacket.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • List of figures
    • Acknowledgments
    • Introduction
    • The making of communicative cities in the 21st century / Matthew Matsaganis and Victoria Gallagher
    • The performances of urban life
    • Defining a "livable city" : parks, suburbanization, and the shaping of community identity and ecological responsibility / Margaret R. LaWare
    • Communicative spaces and rhetorical enactments : how and why urban parks
    • Enhance (or fail to enhance) civic life / Victoria J. Gallagher, Kenneth Zagacki, and Kelly Norris Martin
    • Understanding urban foodways and communicative cities : a taste of Hong Kong's Yumcha culture as urban communication / Casey Man Kong Lum
    • The politics and technologies of urban life
    • Unconventional urban communication success : envisioning and engendering a revitalized New Cassel / Mary Ann Allison
    • Auditing communication systems to help urban policy makers / Leo W. Jeffres, Kimberly Neuendorf, Guowei Jian, and Kimberly S. Cooper
    • Containing RFID : questioning communication, technology, and culture / John Monberg
    • The fantasies and facades of urban life
    • Chinese tourists, themed casinos, and consumer pedagogy in Macao / Tim Simpson
    • Locating nihonmachi : urban erasure, memory, and visibility in Japantown, USA / Janis L. Edwards
    • Skins, tattoos, and architectural facades : or what you see is what you
    • Get' for the moment / Gary Gumpert and Susan Drucker
    • Origami urbanism amid the flat city : an omnitopian analysis of commercials depicting mutability in urban life / Andrew F. Wood
    • Afterword
    • Cross-currents inside and outside the communicative city / Gene Burd.
    ISBN
    • 9781433122606 ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 143312260X ((hardcover ; : alk. paper))
    • 9781433122590 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    • 1433122596 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
    LCCN
    2013008617
    OCLC
    837922754
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