Feminist Protocols: Auditing Urban Infrastructures and Reporting Gender Violence in the City

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5February 27, 2020<January 27, 2023

Feminist Protocols: Auditing Urban Infrastructures and Reporting Gender Violence in the City

Carrie Rentschler

Carrie Rentschler on feminist and anti-racist practices in the porous urban spaces and surfaces of chalking, graffiti, and postering

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 5February 27, 2020<October 13, 2021

Apparitions and Wormholes: Moving Image Artworks and Urban Porosity

Annie Dell'Aria

Annie Dell'Aria shows how illuminations and projections move through the fluid, living skin of the built environment, parting the boundaries between public and private space

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3October 15, 2018<October 15, 2018

Introduction: Essay Films and the City

Igor Krstić

[Ed. note: this post is part of a Roundtable discussion on “The Essay Film and The City.” For more background on the discussion …

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 3March 9, 2018<March 9, 2018

The Lingering Presence of Richard Florida in Gothenburg’s Future Vision

Helena Holgersson & Erik Florin Persson

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.

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 3March 8, 2018<March 8, 2018

The Florida Project, Labor Strife, and Life on the Margins of Disney World

Alex Kupfer

Alex Kupfer reflects on Disney's history of expropriation in connection to economic inequality and labor disputes as the Roundtable wraps up.

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 3March 6, 2018<March 6, 2018

Headhunters and Funmakers: Game Industry Recruiting à Montréal

Theo Stojanov

Theo Stojanov explores the Montreal game industry's construction of its ideal recruit in the context of local policies, especially surrounding language

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 3March 2, 2018<March 2, 2018

TV Happens Here: Negotiating Public Perceptions of Spatial Capital

Myles McNutt

Myles McNutt discusses the various ways in which cities do and do not transform their status as popular shooting locations into spatial capital

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 3February 28, 2018<February 28, 2018

Living With the Media Industry City

Lawrence Webb

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

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 3February 26, 2018<April 22, 2022

A Deceptive Return to Welfare State Rhetoric in the Marketing Initiatives of Gothenburg

Helena Holgersson & Erik Florin Persson

Helena Holgersson & Erik Florin Persson explore Gothenberg's new promotional films, and trace their attempted resuscitation of older notions of community and government

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 3February 23, 2018<February 23, 2018

Golden Oak, Fan Engagement, and Disney’s Community Development

Alex Kupfer

Alex Kupfer explores how the promotional films for Disney's Golden Oak community blur distinctions between resident and fan, employee and family member

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 3February 21, 2018<June 5, 2022

Lofts, Eats, and Montréal’s Game Industry

Theo Stojanov

Theo Stojanov discusses the arrival of the game industry in Montreal, and its marketing to new workers.

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 3February 16, 2018<February 20, 2018

Media Industries and City Branding: A Roundtable

Lawrence Webb

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