Celluloid Nights: Film-Technological Modernity and  Weimar Republic Berlin

Schiller, Simon

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 10July 8, 2025<July 8, 2025

Celluloid Nights: Film-Technological Modernity and Weimar Republic Berlin

Simon Schiller

Simon Schiller examines the techniques used to capture night on film in Weimar-era Berlin and discusses the intersections of cinema, electricity, and light in urban modernity.

Deep Dives, no. 4, vol. 9November 23, 2024<November 25, 2024

Marketing Nation: The Spectacular Outdoor Advertisements of Douglas Leigh in Postwar America

Jane Zhang

From electronic billboards to spectacular dirigibles, the outdoor advertising of Douglas Leigh incorporated theatrical techniques into the urban landscape. Jane Zhang shows how Leigh’s corporate campaigns mediated the relationship between individual and national identity in postwar America.

no. 2, Q & A, Reviewed, vol. 9June 25, 2024<June 25, 2024

The Mediapolis Q&A: Myria Georgiou’s Being Human in Digital Cities

Scott Rodgers and Myria Georgiou

Myria Georgiou talks to Scott Rodgers about her latest book, Being Human in Digital Cities.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 8June 6, 2023<July 3, 2026

Sensing Nature: Green Databases and Maintenance as/of Care

Linda Kopitz

Linda Kopitz traces how the vision for Amsterdam’s sustainable future has been digitally mapped by “green” databases in ways that construct ideas of maintenance as care, and care as maintenance. Yet such mediations of urban nature risk fragmenting sustainable practices in the present.

Dossiers, no. 2, vol. 8June 5, 2023<June 9, 2023

Caring Cities: An Introduction

Linda Kopitz and Pei-Sze Chow

In their introduction to the Caring Cities dossier, Linda Kopitz and Pei-Sze Chow consider how care intersects with the urban, and how care might be “designed," through the lenses of technology, politics, and the senses.

no. 4, Roundtables, vol. 3November 5, 2018<November 5, 2018

Platforms as urban technology?

Lizzie Richardson

Lizzie Richardson's followup post explores urban plan forms as technologies of urban life.

no. 2, Roundtables, vol. 2June 7, 2017<June 7, 2017

Sense and the City: Liam Young’s Speculative Cinema

Holly Willis

Holly Willis explores Liam Young's "speculative cinema," showing how his work that integrates film, fiction, animation, marketing, games and documentary demonstrates an emergent cinematic form that defies generic boundaries whilst simultaneously reconfiguring the city.