Wanghong Urbanism: Towards a New Urban-Digital Spectacle

Zhang, Amy Y., Asa Roast, and Carwyn Morris

November 30, 2022<January 25, 2023

Wanghong Urbanism: Towards a New Urban-Digital Spectacle

by 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.

November 22, 2022<November 22, 2022

Urban Imaginaries of Negotiation in Marvila

by Roberto Falanga

Roberto Falanga and Mafalda Corrêa Nunes examine how local community groups in Lisbon’s Marvila have asserted their right to shape the regeneration process of the area within the wider goals of city rebranding.

November 22, 2022<November 22, 2022

Keep it Blurry: Imagining Martim Moniz

by Andrea Pavoni

More than any other place, Martim Moniz square embodies the conflicted nature of Lisbon’s urban imaginaries. Andrea Pavoni reflects on the struggles over its use and argues for the importance of a “blurry” vision of the city.

November 22, 2022<November 22, 2022

Who Profits? And Who Should? Notes on Coletividades, Gentrification and Political Agency in Arroios

by Marco Allegra

Marco Allegra writes about the role of coletividades—non-commercial spaces—and local groups in the transformation of Lisbon’s Arroios, and questions some of the standard narratives of the neighbourhood’s gentrification.

November 21, 2022<November 22, 2022

Imagining, and Struggling in, Lisbon’s East Side

by Simone Tulumello

Where is Lisbon's East Side and who defines it? Simone Tulumello discusses the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the identity of the area and emphasises the conflictual nature of capitalist urbanism.

November 21, 2022<November 21, 2022

From Conflicting to Overlapping Imaginaries: A Cartography of Urban Imaginaries in East Lisbon

by Lavínia Pereira and João Felipe P. Brito

In their introduction to the second part of the roundtable, Lavínia Pereira and João Felipe P. Brito discuss the overlapping nature of urban imaginaries and pose questions for the contributors about strategies of “reverse imagineering” in East Lisbon.

November 16, 2022<November 16, 2022

On, For, With Structure: Tanya Lukin Linklater’s My Mind is With the Weather

by Malini Guha

Malini Guha explores the work of the Alutiiq artist Tanya Lukin Linklater and reflects on her preoccupation with different kinds of structure across installations, performance, poetry, and video art.

November 14, 2022<November 14, 2022

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

by Robert Joseph

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

November 10, 2022<November 10, 2022

Under Construction: Searching for Future Ruins on the Eastern Riverfront of Lisbon

by Andrea Pavoni

Andrea Pavoni takes a psychogeographical tour of Lisbon’s eastern riverfront, a fragmented landscape which is permanently “under construction” and ruined at the same time.

November 9, 2022<November 9, 2022

Urban Imaginaries of Contention in Marvila

by Roberto Falanga

Roberto Falanga and Mafalda Corrêa Nunes report on Lisbon’s participation in a major European Commission project and analyse the multi-layered and often conflicting urban imaginaries that characterize the redevelopment of the Marvila district.

November 8, 2022<December 19, 2022

“What’s in a name?”: Imagining Arroios

by Marco Allegra

Lisbon’s Arroios was dubbed “the world’s coolest neighborhood” by Time Out. Marco Allegra considers the power of naming and asks what's at stake in such rankings of “coolness.”

November 7, 2022<November 21, 2022

Introduction: Conflicting Imaginaries in East Lisbon

by Lavínia Pereira and João Felipe P. Brito

In their roundtable introduction, Lavínia Pereira and João Felipe P. Brito survey the ongoing transformation of East Lisbon and discuss “conflicting imaginaries” as a framework for understanding the intersection of the local and the global in the "Mouraria–Marvila axis."