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no. 3, Q & A, vol. 4October 9, 2019

The Mediapolis Q&A: Ofer Eliaz’s Cinematic Cryptonymies

By Angelo Restivo

In this installment of our continuing series of conversations with authors of new books on cities and urban culture, film and television scholar Angelo Restivo interviews Ofer Eliaz, Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Ohio University and author of Cinematic …

Counterparts, no. 3, vol. 4October 7, 2019

Textures of Visibility: The City/Essay/Film Symposium

By Anna Viola Sborgi

Lisbon: tiny boat lights flicker in the darkness of the port at night, a boy skates back and forth in a courtyard in the bright daylight, sounds from the home blend with traffic noise from the street below, city life …

no. 3, Opening the Canon, vol. 4October 4, 2019

A Phenomenological Reading of Jane Jacobs’ Death and Life of Great American Cities

By David Seamon

Though published almost sixty years ago, urbanist Jane Jacobs’ 1961 Death and Life of Great American Cities continues to grow in conceptual and pragmatic significance.¹Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities,NY: Random House, 1961/1993; …

Deep Dives, no. 2, vol. 4July 9, 2019

Landscape as Loneliness in The Last Picture Show

By Daryl Meador

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 …

Global Public Art, no. 2, vol. 4July 2, 2019

Hemispheric Conversations Urban Art Project: Celebrating Histories of Industrial Labor and Potential Futures of Ecological Abundance

By Caitlin Bruce

The Carrie Furnaces are the remains of a blast furnace site where minerals were combined to create pig iron, the base material that is refined into steel (Figure 1 and 2). Though the original footprint of the site was about …