Urban Humanities, New Practices for Reimagining the City
- Authors
- Dana Cuff & Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris & Todd Presner & Maite Zubiaurre & Jonathan Jae-an Crisman
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Tags
- global urbanism; design; humanities; pedagogy; spatial justice; mapping; artistic practice , artivism; los angeles , mexico city; tokyo; shanghai; cities; architecture; design; urban planning; spatial turn; comparative urbanism; transnational urbanism; global cities; right to the city; transnational; critical cartography; mapping; spatial ethnography; filmic sensing; sensory ethnography; essay film; social practice; new media; science fiction; speculative fiction; futurity; future studies; futures; speculation; projection; positionality; interdisciplinarity; contemporary university
- Date
- 2020-03-13
- Size
- 8.52 MB
- Lang
- en
Original, action-oriented humanist practices for interpreting and intervening in the city: a new methodology at the intersection of the humanities, design, and urban studies.Urban humanities is an emerging field at the intersection of the humanities, urban planning, and design. It offers a new approach not only for understanding cities in a global context but for intervening in them, interpreting their histories, engaging with them in the present, and speculating about their futures. This book introduces both the theory and practice of urban humanities, tracing the evolution of the concept, presenting methods and practices with a wide range of research applications, describing changes in teaching and curricula, and offering case studies of urban humanities practices in the field.
Urban humanities views the city through a lens of spatial justice, and its inquiries are centered on the microsettings of everyday life. The book's case studies report on real-world...