作者： 斯科特·麦夸尔（Scott McQuire），澳大利亚墨尔本大学文化与传播学院媒体与传播学教授，公共文化研究中心创办人，2013年当选澳大利亚人文科学院院士。出版7本专著，发表100多篇论文等，主持9个澳大利亚研究委员会科研项目。专著《媒介城市》曾获2009年城市传播基金会简·雅各布斯奖。 译者： 潘霁，复旦大学新闻学院教授，信息传播研究中心研究员，新加坡南洋理工大学新媒体研究小组博士后研究员，美国南卡罗莱纳大学博士。主要研究兴趣包括：数字媒体技术对于城市公共生活的影响，城市传播中的信任与社会资本，以及数字传播研究方法创新等。

作者： 斯科特·麦夸尔（Scott McQuire），澳大利亚墨尔本大学文化与传播学院媒体与传播学教授，公共文化研究中心创办人，2013年当选澳大利亚人文科学院院士。出版7本专著，发表100多篇论文等，主持9个澳大利亚研究委员会科研项目。专著《媒介城市》曾获2009年城市传播基金会简·雅各布斯奖。 译者： 潘霁，复旦大学新闻学院教授，信息传播研究中心研究员，新加坡南洋理工大学新媒体研究小组博士后研究员，美国南卡罗莱纳大学博士。主要研究兴趣包括：数字媒体技术对于城市公共生活的影响，城市传播中的信任与社会资本，以及数字传播研究方法创新等。

In cities around the world, individuals and groups are reclaiming and creating urban sites, temporary spaces and informal gathering places. These ‘insurgent public spaces’ challenge conventional views of how urban areas are defined and used, and how they can transform the city environment. No longer confined to traditional public areas like neighbourhood parks and public plazas...(展开全部)

In cities around the world, individuals and groups are reclaiming and creating urban sites, temporary spaces and informal gathering places. These ‘insurgent public spaces’ challenge conventional views of how urban areas are defined and used, and how they can transform the city environment. No longer confined to traditional public areas like neighbourhood parks and public plazas...(展开全部)

Though reaching ever further toward the skies, today’s cities are overshadowed by multiple threats: climate change, overpopulation, social division, and urban warfare all endanger our metropolitan way of life. The fundamental tool we use to make sense of these uncertain city futures is the imagination. Architects, artists, filmmakers, and fiction writers have long been inspired...(展开全部)

How culture acts to shape public spaces and how the physical form of the plaza encodes the social, political, and economic relations within the city.

'...this is a book with an interesting thesis, and a welcome contribution to the literature. Pile has opened up a productive theoretical and empirical space for further study and exploration' - RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research Group What is real about city life? Real Cities shows why it is necessary to take seriously the more imaginary, fantastic and emotional aspects of city l...(展开全部)

In their depiction of the city, movies carry a multiplicity of means through which to reveal elements of culture, architecture, and history. Projected Cities surveys the connections between cinematic images and cities, with particular focus on the urban cinema cultures of Europe and Japan. It explores urban film imagery at moments of turmoil and experimentation, and assesses th...(展开全部)

How we can invent—but not predict—the future of cities. We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more like organisms than machines. Neither the laws of economics nor the laws of mechanics apply; cities are the product of countless individual and collective decisions that do not conform to...(展开全部)

Winner of the EDRA book prize for 2012. In cities around the world, individuals and groups are reclaiming and creating urban sites, temporary spaces and informal gathering places. These 'insurgent public spaces' challenge conventional views of how urban areas are defined and used, and how they can transform the city environment. No longer confined to traditional public areas li...(展开全部)