Series: Urban Studies

In 2003, Norman M. Klein's docufable Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles raised questions of urban aesthetics and memory as part of the multimedia documentary Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, 1920-1986. Now, 20 years later, this important text is reissued along with several essays addressing its central themes, such as the aesthetics and politics of urban memory, the development...

Berlin is increasingly emerging as a hub of Arab intellectual life in Europe. In this first study of Arab culture to zoom in on the thriving metropolis, the contributors shed light on the dynamics of transformation with Arabs as agents, subjects, and objects of change in the spheres of politics, society and history, gender, demographics and migration, media and culture,...

What do planners need to know in order to use narrative approaches responsibly in their practice? This practical field guide makes insights from narrative research accessible to planners through a glossary of key concepts in the field of narrative in planning. What makes narratives coherent, probable, persuasive, even necessary - but also potentially harmful, manipulative and divisive? How can narratives...

In a neighbourhood facing massive redevelopment, racialised residents speak about stigma, social mixing, and what the island community means to them. Based on rich interviews, photographs, and archival research, Julie Chamberlain rejects the usual silence in German urban studies around racialisation and examines how constructing some groups as "not belonging" has shaped Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg's past and present. For racialised long-time residents,...