- Table of Contents
- Introduction - Global Cities/Local Sites
- Singapore 'Missions': Local Heritage Sites in a Global Era
- Global and Local Forces at Work in Vancouver: The Fascinating Case of the Birth and Rebirth of Coal Harbour
- The Politics of Urban Spectacle: Melbourne Riverscapes
- eBay and Google in Dublin
- The Palace, the Terminal and the Park: Three Blocks in the Middle of Montreal
- Jakarta and the Limits of Urban Legibility
- New York City: The View from Governors Island
- Bibliography
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Global Cities/Local Sites
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Introduction - Global Cities/Local SitesAbout the Author
Will Straw
Will Straw is Professor in the Department of Art History and Communications Studies at McGill University in Montreal. A former President of the Canadian Communications Association, Straw is the author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America, and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock. Professor Straw is the author of over 70 articles on film, popular music, print culture, urban life and Canadian culture. He is the winner of the David Thomson Award for Graduate Teaching and Supervision. His current research centres on tabloid newspaper publishing in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s, and on the scandalous periodical Broadway Brevities. Straw maintains a website devoted to Print Culture and Urban Visuality, based on his collection of city-based magazines and newspapers.
Email: william.straw@mcgill.ca
About the Author
Douglas Tallack
During the writing this essay, Douglas Tallack moved to a post as Professor of American Studies, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Arts, Humanities and Law at the University of Leicester, UK. He was formerly Professor of American Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Professor Tallack has written and edited a number of books: New York Sights: Visualizing Old and New New York (2005); City Sites: Multi-Media Essays on New York and Chicago (co-editor) (2000); Critical Theory: A Reader (editor) (1995); The Nineteenth-Century American Short Story (1993); Twentieth-Century America (1991); and Literary Theory at Work (editor) (1987). He has twice won the Arthur Miller Prize for the best American Studies article of the year, and was director of the 3Cities project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. Professor Tallack holds honorary guest professorships at Tsinghua and Shanghai International Studies University, and was the Grolier Club (New York) Fellow for 2008. He has been a member of the UK Government's Marshall Commission and the Advisory Board of the Observatory for Borderless Education.
Email: prof.d.tallack@le.ac.uk
Singapore 'Missions': Local Heritage Sites in a Global Era
Author: Lily Kong
About the Author
Lily Kong
Lily Kong is a Professor in the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore, where she is also Vice-President (University and Global Relations) and Director, Asia Research Institute. She is a social and cultural geographer who researches religion, national identity, popular music, creative economy and policy, and social constructions of nature and environment. Her study sites include predominantly Chinese cities in Asia, namely, Singapore, Taipei, Hong Kong and Shanghai.
Email: lilykong@nus.edu.sg
Global and Local Forces at Work in Vancouver: The Fascinating Case of the Birth and Rebirth of Coal Harbour
About the Author
David W. Edgington
David W. Edgington is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada, where he teaches course on Japan, Canada and the Pacific Rim. His research topics include immigration policy and local governments in Vancouver, urban and regional development in Japan, and international trade and investment patterns in East Asia.
Email: david.edgington@ubc.ca
About the Author
Michael A. Goldberg
Michael A. Goldberg is Professor and Dean Emeritus, in the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia, Canada, where he has been studying urban economics, land use and transportation and public policy for the past four decades. Of particular interest have been comparative analyses of Canadian and US cities and more recently of cities in the global economy.
Email: mikendeb@shaw.ca
The Politics of Urban Spectacle: Melbourne Riverscapes
Author: Kim Dovey
About the Author
Kim Dovey
Kim Dovey is Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne. Professor Dovey has been engaged for over twenty years in research on social issues in architecture and urban design. His theoretical focus incorporates conceptions of 'place', constructions of meaning and spatial analysis. Specific studies include tall buildings, shopping malls, housing, the politics of public space and Aboriginality in architecture. Books include: Framing Places: Mediating Power in Built Form (Routledge 1999) and Fluid City: Transforming Melbourne's Urban Waterfront (Routledge 2005). Professor Dovey is the recipient of a number of ARC grants and is currently engaged in a project entitled, 'What is Urban Character?'
Professor Dovey has been a keynote speaker at a number of international conferences and has held visiting professor or scholar positions at Berkeley, UCL (Bartlett), City University of New York and the universities of Minnesota and Nottingham. Locally he has engaged in public debate and broadcast widely in the mass media. He has received a number of awards for published work including the Australia Award for Urban Design.
Email: k.dovey@ unimelb.edu.au
Webpage: http://www.placeresearch.net/
eBay and Google in Dublin
About the Author
Brian Ward
Brian Ward graduated from the School of Architecture, UCD in 1999. He has won Architectural Association of Ireland Awards with both Dominic Stevens Architects and De Paor Architects. He is year-head of first year design studio at the Dublin School of Architecture, DIT. Previously a practising architect, he is currently conducting doctoral research on the garden suburb landscape at UCD. Between 2005 and 2007 he was editor of Building Material, the journal of the Architectural Association of Ireland.
About the Author
Hugh Campbell
Dr. Hugh Campbell is Senior Lecturer in Architecture at University College Dublin, where he teaches design, history and theory of architecture and is co-ordinator of the graduate course. He has published widely and has lectured and taught at many universities worldwide. His areas of research include Irish architecture and urbanism; the representation of space in photography and other media; space in postwar Europe; and the relationship between the construction of the self and the construction of space, a subject on which he is currently completing a book entitled In Here and Out There.
Email: hugh.campbell@ucd.ie
The Palace, the Terminal and the Park: Three Blocks in the Middle of Montreal
Author: Will Straw
About the Author
Will Straw
Will Straw is Professor in the Department of Art History and Communications Studies at McGill University in Montreal. A former President of the Canadian Communications Association, Straw is the author of Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America, and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock. Professor Straw is the author of over 70 articles on film, popular music, print culture, urban life and Canadian culture. He is the winner of the David Thomson Award for Graduate Teaching and Supervision. His current research centres on tabloid newspaper publishing in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s, and on the scandalous periodical Broadway Brevities. Straw maintains a website devoted to Print Culture and Urban Visuality, based on his collection of city-based magazines and newspapers.
Email: william.straw@mcgill.ca
Jakarta and the Limits of Urban Legibility
Author: Stephen Cairns
About the Author
Stephen Cairns
Stephen Cairns is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Architecture at the University of Edinburgh, where he teaches architectural design and theory. He has published essays on representation, aesthetics and postcolonial criticism in journals such as Postcolonial Studies, The Journal of Architecture, and Urban Studies. He edited Drifting: Architecture and Migrancy (Routledge 2004), and is currently working on an AHRC-funded project entitled 'Cultures of Legibility', which explores the aesthetics and politics of mega-city urbanism in Southeast Asia.
Email: s.cairns@ed.ac.uk
New York City: The View from Governors Island
Author: Douglas Tallack
About the Author
Douglas Tallack
During the writing this essay, Douglas Tallack moved to a post as Professor of American Studies, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Arts, Humanities and Law at the University of Leicester, UK. He was formerly Professor of American Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Professor Tallack has written and edited a number of books: New York Sights: Visualizing Old and New New York (2005); City Sites: Multi-Media Essays on New York and Chicago (co-editor) (2000); Critical Theory: A Reader (editor) (1995); The Nineteenth-Century American Short Story (1993); Twentieth-Century America (1991); and Literary Theory at Work (editor) (1987). He has twice won the Arthur Miller Prize for the best American Studies article of the year, and was director of the 3Cities project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. Professor Tallack holds honorary guest professorships at Tsinghua and Shanghai International Studies University, and was the Grolier Club (New York) Fellow for 2008. He has been a member of the UK Government's Marshall Commission and the Advisory Board of the Observatory for Borderless Education.
Email: prof.d.tallack@le.ac.uk
