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• Title:Inert cities : globalization, mobility and suspension in visual culture / edited by Stephanie Hemelryk Donald and Christoph Lindner.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Donald, Stephanie, 1961- editor.
  Lindner, Christoph, 1971- editor.
  
• Published/Created:London : I.B. Tauris, 2014.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HT151 .S634 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Cities and towns--Philosophy.
  
• Description:xv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  
• Series:International library of visual culture ; 17.
  
• Summary:Annotation We usually associate contemporary urban life with movement and speed. But what about those instances when the forms of mobility associated with globalized cities the flow of capital, people, labor and information freeze, or decelerate? How can we assess the value of interruption in a city? What does valuing stillness mean in regards to the forward march of globalization? When does inertia presage decay - and when does it promise immanence and rebirth?Bringing together original contributions by international specialists from the fields of architecture, photography, film, sociology and cultural analysis, this cutting-edge book considers the poetics and politics of inertia in cities ranging from Amsterdam, Berlin, Beirut and Paris, to Beijing, New York, Sydney and Tokyo. Chapters explore what happens when photography, film, mixed media works, architecture and design intervene in public spaces and urban communities to disrupt speed and growth, both intellectually and/or practically; and question the degree to which mobility is aspirational or imaginary, absolute or transient. Together, they encourage a re-assessment of what it means to be urban in an unevenly globalizing world, to live in cities built around mythologies of perpetual progress.
  
• Additional formats:Also issued online.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781780769721 (hbk.)
  1780769725 (hbk.)
  1780769733 (paperback)
  9781780769738 (paperback)
  9780857736123 (eISBN)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Inertia, Suspension and Mobility in the Global City / Christoph Lindner
  pt. 1 Stillness
  2. On Hold: Urban Photography as Interruption / Shirley Jordan
  3. At the Still Point of the Turning World: The Power of the Urban Portrait / Hugh Campbell
  4. Parkour and the Still Image / Bill Marshall
  5. Commuting and the Multiple Capacities of Stillness / David Bissell
  pt. 2 Deceleration
  6. Decelerating Amsterdam: Visual Culture, Globalization and Creative Urbanism / Miriam Meissner
  7. Viennese Inertia: Cultural and Political Deceleration and Local Identity Construction / Elisabeth Mayerhofer
  8. Inertia and Ethical Urban Relations: The Living, the Dying and the Dead / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
  pt. 3 Slow Motion
  9. Urban Inertia and Dealing with the Disappeared in Postwar Beirut: A Perfect Day (2004) and Here Comes the Rain (2010) / Claire Launchbury
  10. Reflexive Stasis, Scale Reversal and the Myth of Modern Cinema / Lucia Nagib
  11. Slow Motion Pictures: Casting Inertia in Contemporary Berlin Film / Andrew J. Webber.