a journal of cities and culture
Climate change, pandemics, and other global threats have forced humankind to confront its own inevitable extinction – and critically, these problems involve not merely humans but also nonhuman beings. The United Nations calls upon cities around the world to make …
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The China-Africa engagement has been a heated topic of debate for the past decade, not only in academia, but also with the general public. Such engagement is nothing new and can be traced back to the early 1960s. The Third …
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The Last Picture Show (Bogdonavich, 1971) begins and ends with the same shot: a pan across a vacant Texas town that seems all but forgotten, its main street marked only with a single trafficlight that sways from a flimsy wire …
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New Orleans in film and television figures …
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The modernist imagination often filled the city of the future with an abundance of nocturnal urban lights. Massive screens, searchlights, illuminated facades, and other electric lights crowd the mise-en-scene of science fiction films and speculative renderings of the metropolis of …
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