The Instagram Pier: Negotiating Public Space in Hong Kong

Zhou, Grace Yixian

Deep Dives, no. 4, vol. 8November 28, 2023<December 4, 2023

The Instagram Pier: Negotiating Public Space in Hong Kong

Grace Yixian Zhou

Who creates public spaces and what gives life to them? Grace Yixian Zhou examines the photogenic Sai Wan Pier, a vibrant yet contested waterfront site in Hong Kong, as an emblem of the wider struggle for the future of public space in the city.

Dossiers, no. 3, vol. 8September 27, 2023<September 27, 2023

Screen Journeys through Birmingham: the City, the Car and the Canal

Jemma Saunders

From children’s television to images of Spaghetti Junction, Birmingham has been represented as a motor city. Jemma Saunders’s video essay explores screen representations of the city and its automobile-centered identity.

Deep Dives, no. 2, vol. 8June 14, 2023<September 7, 2023

Piazza Navona’s Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Cinema, Peirce, Lynch, and the Dynamicity of Spatial Perception

Hamed Goharipour

Hamed Goharipour uses personal experiences at Rome's Piazza Navona and its depiction in the film Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow to explore how cinema shapes our perception and experience of urban space.

Dossiers, no. 1, vol. 8March 29, 2023<March 29, 2023

Intentional Wanghong Environments Mediating Urban Futures in Xiongan New Area

Antonie Angerer

Exploring China’s latest megacity, Xiongan New Area, Antonie Angerer shows how social media and urban-digital spectacle have become incorporated into the urban planning process.

Deep Dives, no. 4, vol. 7November 30, 2022<January 25, 2023

Wanghong Urbanism: Towards a New Urban-Digital Spectacle

Amy Y. Zhang, Asa Roast, and Carwyn Morris

What 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.

no. 4, Q & A, Reviewed, vol. 7November 14, 2022<November 14, 2022

The Mediapolis Q&A: Cortland Rankin’s Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York

Robert Joseph and Cortland Rankin

Cortland Rankin discusses his new book, Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York, with Robert Joseph.

no. 3, On Teaching, vol. 7September 30, 2022<September 30, 2022

Dignified Spaces in European Cities: A Co-teaching Experiment

Ipek Celik Rappas, Katharina Bauer, James Kapalo, and Martin Radermacher

In this issue of On Teaching, the authors describe their collaborative, interdisciplinary, and inter-institutional undergraduate and graduate course "Dignified Spaces in a Plural Europe: On the (In)Visibility of Cultural and Religious Communities in Post-Industrial Cities," providing an overview of its aims and reflecting on their experiences teaching this unique, collaborative project.

no. 1, Q & A, Reviewed, vol. 7April 1, 2022<November 22, 2023

The Mediapolis Q&A: Erica Stein’s Seeing Symphonically

Paula J. Massood and Erica Stein

Erica Stein discusses her book, Seeing Symphonically: Avant-Garde Film, Urban Planing, and the Utopian Image of New York, with Paula J. Massood.

Mediapolis Now, no. 4, vol. 6September 27, 2021<September 27, 2021

Events Episode 1: Predictive Cities with Manu Luksch, Melissa Butcher, Sarah Keenan and Joel McKim

Scott Rodgers

In the latest episode of our Events podcast series, Manu Luksch, Melissa Butcher, Sarah Keenan and Joel McKim discuss the Predictive Cities VR Exhibition, specially available to Mediapolis listeners and readers until the end of 2021.

no. 4, Opening the Canon, vol. 5October 26, 2020<November 4, 2020

Tosaka Jun’s Spatial Theory and Reflections on Film

Yoon Jeong Oh

Yoon Jeong Oh revisits Tosaka Jun's critical interpretations of Japanese society and cultural criticism, arguing that in his writing on post-WWI Japan, Tosaka problematizes the everyday and reinstates heterogeneous temporalities by restoring the social space occupied by the people who live, work, and move about the city streets.

no. 4, Q & A, Reviewed, vol. 5October 26, 2020<October 26, 2020

Mediapolis Q&A: Germaine R. Halegoua’s The Digital City

Rahul Mukherjee

Rahul Mukherjee leads a discussion with Germaine R. Halegoua on her book The Digital City: Media and the Social Production of Place.

Dossiers, no. 3, vol. 5August 20, 2020<August 27, 2020

Robotic Logics of Public Space in the COVID Pandemic

Shanti Sumartojo et al

A group of interdisciplinary researchers from Monash University examines urban robotics as an emerging possibility for the colonization of public space due to the absence of humans in the lockdown city.