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Sharon Albert & Amy Corbin end this issue with a discussion of the integrative assignments they designed around immigration and migration for their linked courses.
In the final post of the Roundtable, Helena Holgersson and Erik Florin Persson address the role of Richard Florida’s ideas in Gothenburg’s self-presentation and self-conception.
Alex Kupfer reflects on Disney’s history of expropriation in connection to economic inequality and labor disputes as the Roundtable wraps up.
Sharon Albert & Amy Corbin on teaching migration, travel, and immigration through the cluster format
Theo Stojanov explores the Montreal game industry’s construction of its ideal recruit in the context of local policies, especially surrounding language
Myles McNutt discusses the various ways in which cities do and do not transform their status as popular shooting locations into spatial capital
In this Deep Dive, Annie Dell’Aria looks to Cincinnati’s recent Blink light festival to explore how such illuminations are used to define cities and the urban experience for residents
In this introduction to the second round, Lawrence Webb asks the contributors to consider media industries and the cities they generate from the perspective of those cities’ citizens and users
Helena Holgersson & Erik Florin Persson explore Gothenberg’s new promotional films, and trace their attempted resuscitation of older notions of community and government
Alex Kupfer explores how the promotional films for Disney’s Golden Oak community blur distinctions between resident and fan, employee and family member
Theo Stojanov discusses the arrival of the game industry in Montreal, and its marketing to new workers.
Myles McNutt discusses how Los Angeles has been forced to rethink its approach to competing in a new television landscape characterized by mobile production
In the first-round introduction to our new Roundtable, Lawrence Webb uses the example of Amazon HQ2 to ask how urban corporate and residential relocation campaigns illuminate issues of citizenship and city branding, and poses questions to our participants
In our new “Screening Canada” column, Malini Guha reflects on world building as a politically progressive counter to nationalism at the recent Canadian and International Biennial.
Floris Paalman takes a considered look at Thomas Elsaesser’s documentary Die Sonneninsel (The Sun Island). The construction of the European Central Bank on the site of Frankfurt’s former wholesale market – a building designed by Elsaesser’s grandfather, Martin – offers an opportunity to probe architectural and family history, in what Paalman terms “auto-media archaeology.”
