Communicative Cities and Urban Space

Scott McQuire, Sun Wei

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Routledge
31 December 2020

Media studies; Urban communities; Urban economics

Series: China Perspectives

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.

Edited by: Scott McQuire, Sun Wei
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367515607
ISBN 10: 0367515601
Series: China Perspectives
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 31 December 2020
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Scott McQuire is Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne where he pursues interdisciplinary research at the nexus of digital media, urbanism, art and social theory. Sun Wei is Professor of Media and Communications at School of Journalism, Center for Information and Communication Studies, Fudan University.