Cities and Cultures
About the Book Series
Cities and Cultures is an interdisciplinary book series concerned with all forms of cultural expression, practice, and transformation associated with modern and contemporary cities. Global and comparative in scope, the series takes a special interest in the urban-cultural dimensions of inequality, sustainability, technology, and creativity.
Please contact Dorothea Schaefter, Publisher at Routledge ([email protected]) if you have any questions about the series or wish to submit a book proposal.
Transformational Participatory Urbanism: Making Do as Spatial Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Liska Chan, Elizabeth Stapleton
April 16, 2026
Transformational Participatory Urbanism explores making do as a critical spatial practice at the intersection of spatial justice and creative geography. Through cases from Hong Kong’s Lennon Walls and San Francisco Bay mudflats to container-based sanitation in Haiti and Toronto’s strip-mall parking...
Seeing the City Digitally: Processing Urban Space and Time
1st Edition
Edited
By Gillian Rose
January 10, 2026
This book explores what’s happening to ways of seeing urban spaces in the contemporary moment, when so many of the technologies through which cities are visualised are digital. Cities have always been pictured, in many media and for many different purposes. This edited collection explores how that ...
Aesthetics of Gentrification: Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City
1st Edition
Edited
By Christoph Lindner, Gerard Sandoval
January 09, 2026
Gentrification is reshaping cities worldwide, resulting in seductive spaces and exclusive communities that aspire to innovation, creativity, sustainability, and technological sophistication. Gentrification is also contributing to growing social-spatial division and urban inequality and precarity. ...
Media and Mapping Practices in the Middle East and North Africa: Producing Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Alena Strohmaier, Angela Krewani
January 09, 2026
A few months into the popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in 2009/10, the promises of social media, including its ability to influence a participatory governance model, grassroots civic engagement, new social dynamics, inclusive societies and new opportunities for ...
Urban Memory and Visual Culture in Berlin: Framing the Asynchronous City, 1957-2012
1st Edition
By Simon Ward
January 09, 2026
As sites of continual change and transformation, cities are fundamentally forgetful places. Yet at the same time, urban areas are also homes to museums and archives that collect and exhibit the past-a key cultural, political, and economic activity. This book looks at that paradox through the ...
Visualizing the Street: New Practices of Documenting, Navigating and Imagining the City
1st Edition
Edited
By Pedram Dibazar, Judith Naeff
January 09, 2026
From user-generated images of streets to professional architectural renderings, and from digital maps and drone footages to representations of invisible digital ecologies, this collection of essays analyses the emergent practices of visualizing the street. Today, advancements in digital ...
From City Space to Cyberspace: Art, Squatting, and Internet Culture in the Netherlands
1st Edition
By Amanda Wasielewski
December 01, 2025
The narrative of the birth of internet culture often focuses on the achievements of American entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, but there is an alternative history of internet pioneers in Europe who developed their own model of network culture in the early 1990s. Drawing from their experiences in the...
The Permanence of Temporary Urbanism: Normalising Precarity in Austerity London
1st Edition
By Mara Ferreri
December 01, 2025
Temporary urbanism has become a distinctive feature of urban life after the 2008 global financial crisis. This book offers a critical exploration of its emergence and establishment as a seductive discourse and as an entangled field of practice encompassing architecture, visual and performative arts...
Visual Culture of Post-Industrial Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Frances Guerin, Magda Szczesniak
December 01, 2025
Visual Culture of Post-Industrial Europe investigates visual cultural projects in Europe from the 1970s onwards in response to industrial closures, resultant unemployment, diminished social services and shattered identities. Typically, art and visual cultural creations at one-time thriving European...
Amsterdam Diaries, Life Writing and Identity: Urban Lives
1st Edition
Edited
By Laura Hasselt, Marleen Rensen, Leonieke Vermeer, Ernestine Hoegen
October 29, 2025
This volume invites readers to rediscover Amsterdam through the intimate lens of its inhabitants. Amsterdam Diaries, Life Writing and Identity offers a rich and layered portrayal of the city through the self-narratives of ‘ordinary’ individuals from the eighteenth century to the present. Exploring ...
Gentrification and the Media: Building and Propagating Discourses on Exclusive Urban Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Stéphane Sadoux, Marie-Pierre Vincent, David Fée, Louise Dalingwater
April 14, 2025
Gentrification is extensively discussed in the media, where coverage can describe changing neighbourhoods and analyse the causes and consequences of such change. The media are also arenas in which the voices of those who advocate or resist gentrification can be heard. How can this profusion of ...
Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces: Cultural Encounters After Dusk
1st Edition
Edited
By Sara Brandellero, Kamilia Krakowska Rodrigues, Derek Pardue
January 13, 2025
Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces: Cultural Encounters after Dusk captures the multifarious nature of the urban night and how it is lived, structured, and reflected upon in diverse cultural and artistic expressions. The volume acknowledges the urban night as an often-overlooked key dimension ...