Bücher der Reihe Cultural Spaces

Nineteen of New York's best urbanists consider the attacks of September 11. Their essays provide a panoramic social portrait of New York and point to a manifesto for a democratically planned city, where all the different communities count.

Presents a cultural history of how people experienced commodities in the era of industrial expansion. This work explains that the emergence of a culture of mass consumption dominated by visual experience was a much slower process, not truly ascendant until after the First World War.

Explores the significance of globalization processes on urban change, architectural practice and the built environment. This book covers the "star system" of international architects who combine celebrity and hypermobility, the top firms, and whose offices undergo a major global expansion.

Traces the rise of New York City as a brand and the resultant transformation of urban politics and public life. This title shows that the branding of New York was not simply a marketing tool; rather it was a political strategy.

Shows how the placeless markets that billboards created presage the pop-ups in the ultimate placeless space, the Internet. Richly illustrated with more than 60 illustrations--including an 8-page color insert--of billboards and ads from across the century, this book traces the evolution of billboards from urban centers of the 1920s to the freeways that stretch across America today

Exploring the crossroads of commerce and culture, this book provides an account of the relationships forged between technology and finance in 1990s New York, and the urban culture they generated.

The first book to analyse cultural dynamics of Chinese migration to Italy, Migration and the Media compares Italian, Chinese migrant, and international media interpretations between 1992 and 2012. From paternalistic tones reducing migrants' motives to poverty or political oppression to fear-mongering diatribes about illegal business practices, tax evasion, and unfair competition, the Italian and international media covered this large-scale migration extensively during this period. The Chinese community also joined in the media polyphony with articles in their own newspapers and magazines, more likely refuting biased mainstream media coverage or protesting the harsh regulations that seemed to target the Chinese, but sometimes even advising fellow migrants on how to counter the media's criticism. Gaoheng Zhang places the strong media interest in Italian-Chinese migrant relations within relevant economic, political, cultural, and linguistic contexts. Examining how journalists, entrepreneurs, and politicians debated Italy's Chinese, Zhang argues that these stakeholders viewed the migration as a particularly effective example to support or dispute Italy's general stance toward migrant integration and economic globalization.