The Development of Edinburgh’s Harry Potter Tourism Scene and TripAdvisor as an “Ordering Resource”
byKath Bassett examines how locative media platforms such as TripAdvisor have shaped the development of Harry Potter tourism in Edinburgh.
In this Issue
Introduction: Urban-Digital Spectacle
byIn their introduction to the dossier on urban-digital spectacle, Amy Y. Zhang, Asa Roast, and Carwyn Morris reflect on the complex roles that digital technology and social media play in the production and consumption of urban space.
The Urban Attention Economy: How Our Cities Are Rebuilt for Social Media
byUrban aesthetics have become social media aesthetics, argues Petter Törnberg. Drawing on research from São Paolo, Törnberg shows how the logics of social media have become integral to the new urban attention economy.
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Wanghong Urbanism: Towards a New Urban-Digital Spectacle
byWhat happens when a place achieves celebrity status on social media? Amy Y. Zhang, Asa Roast and Carwyn Morris introduce the term “wanghong urbanism” to theorize the construction of urban-digital spectacle and discuss the implications of the phenomenon for cities in China and beyond.
Urban Imaginaries of Negotiation in Marvila
byRoberto Falanga and Mafalda Corrêa Nunes examine how local community groups in Lisbon’s Marvila have asserted their right to shape the regeneration process of the area within the wider goals of city rebranding.
Keep it Blurry: Imagining Martim Moniz
byMore than any other place, Martim Moniz square embodies the conflicted nature of Lisbon’s urban imaginaries. Andrea Pavoni reflects on the struggles over its use and argues for the importance of a “blurry” vision of the city.
Who Profits? And Who Should? Notes on Coletividades, Gentrification and Political Agency in Arroios
byMarco Allegra writes about the role of coletividades—non-commercial spaces—and local groups in the transformation of Lisbon’s Arroios, and questions some of the standard narratives of the neighbourhood’s gentrification.
Imagining, and Struggling in, Lisbon’s East Side
byWhere is Lisbon’s East Side and who defines it? Simone Tulumello discusses the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the identity of the area and emphasises the conflictual nature of capitalist urbanism.
From Conflicting to Overlapping Imaginaries: A Cartography of Urban Imaginaries in East Lisbon
byIn their introduction to the second part of the roundtable, Lavínia Pereira and João Felipe P. Brito discuss the overlapping nature of urban imaginaries and pose questions for the contributors about strategies of “reverse imagineering” in East Lisbon.
On, For, With Structure: Tanya Lukin Linklater’s My Mind is With the Weather
byMalini Guha explores the work of the Alutiiq artist Tanya Lukin Linklater and reflects on her preoccupation with different kinds of structure across installations, performance, poetry, and video art.
The Mediapolis Q&A: Cortland Rankin’s Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York
byCortland Rankin discusses his new book, Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York, with Robert Joseph.
Under Construction: Searching for Future Ruins on the Eastern Riverfront of Lisbon
byAndrea Pavoni takes a psychogeographical tour of Lisbon’s eastern riverfront, a fragmented landscape which is permanently “under construction” and ruined at the same time.
Urban Imaginaries of Contention in Marvila
byRoberto Falanga and Mafalda Corrêa Nunes report on Lisbon’s participation in a major European Commission project and analyse the multi-layered and often conflicting urban imaginaries that characterize the redevelopment of the Marvila district.
“What’s in a name?”: Imagining Arroios
byLisbon’s Arroios was dubbed “the world’s coolest neighborhood” by Time Out. Marco Allegra considers the power of naming and asks what’s at stake in such rankings of “coolness.”
Introduction: Conflicting Imaginaries in East Lisbon
byIn their roundtable introduction, Lavínia Pereira and João Felipe P. Brito survey the ongoing transformation of East Lisbon and discuss “conflicting imaginaries” as a framework for understanding the intersection of the local and the global in the “Mouraria–Marvila axis.”