a journal of cities and culture
As Rio de Janeiro prepares to host the Olympic games amid controversies of water pollution, questionable “pacification” projects, and a daunting water and energy crisis, the city also celebrates its 450th anniversary this year. The 2015 Rio 450 campaign invites …
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For the past four years I have had the pleasure of making motion pictures a major part of the traveling exhibition, Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008. The exhibition explores how painters, photographers, filmmakers, writers, and graphic …
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The Annual Urban Affairs Association Conference is an ambitiously interdisciplinary experience, particularly for media scholars. The annual call for papers lists 26 different categories, ranging from Disaster Planning and Nonprofit Human Services to Urban Theory and Urban Design. Categories of …
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The impetus for Mediapolis began with a simple observation: that to live in our particular historical moment is to grapple with, on the one hand, the ever more inextricable role that media play in our everyday lives, while on the …
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