Urban Artscapes

Manila Castoro is an art historian and theorist. She earned a Ph.D. at the University of Kent, England, where she has also taught art history, photography and aesthetics. Her research focuses on street and documentary photography. Carolina Vasilikou is an architect, educator and lecturer at the new School of Architecture at the University of Reading. She teaches environmental design and technology and focuses on the multi-sensory perception of public spaces.

Table of Contents


Preface and Acknowledgments

Contending Urban Artscapes: An Introduction (Manila Castoro and Carolina Vasilikou)

Part I: Cultural Art Localities

Jochen Gerz’s 2–3 Strassen’: (De)constructing the Urban Public (Jonathan Vickery)

The Site Is the Surface: Street Art Placement and Adaptation in London’s Blackall Street (Sabina Andron)

Graffiti Writing to Street Art and Beyond: Bologna and the Birthplace of an Italian Style (Claudio Musso)

Art, Town and Gown: Siting Public Artworks in Kingston Upon Thames (Robert Knifton)

Redefining the Boundaries of Public and Private Space in Japanese Cities: Un-Gated Theme Parks, Manga, Anime and Consumer Games (Kentaro Yagi)

Between pages 86 and 87 are 4 color plates with 8 photographs

Interlude

Collaborative Spatiality in Contemporary Practice (Daniel Tollady and Anna Baranowska)

Part II: Political Art Narratives

The New “Periphery Cinema” of Rio de Janeiro: Comprehending

deletethe Informal City Through Art (Claudia Seldin, Raquel Ribeiro Martins and Rosa Richter D. Rocha)

Mapping Political Graffiti: Urban Appropriations of Public Space (Carolina Vasilikou and Eugene Nulman)

Counter-Narratives of the New Egyptian Street: Contesting Authority Through Graffiti (Georgiana Nicoarea)

Architecture and Negativity: Towards a ­Counter-Artscape in the ­Post-Political City (Marta López-Marcos and Carlos Tapia)

The Global City and the Cinematic Novel: Jersey City in Lav Diaz’s Batang West Side (Marco Grosoli)

Between pages 176 and 177 are 4 color plates with 7 photographs

Finale

Challenging the Street Through Photography: A Journey Through Contemporary India (Manila Castoro)

About the Contributors

Index