Shirley Jordan - Cities Interrupted: Visual Culture and Urban Space

Ackbar Abbas

Shirley Jordan and Christoph Lindner

Richard J. Williams

Jeroen de Kloet

Christoph Lindner

David Pinder

Gillian Jein

Gillian Rose, Monica Degen and Clare Melhuish

Ginette Verstraete

Mara Ferreri

Hugh Campbell

Bill Marshall

Shirley Jordan

Jordi Colomer, Anarchitekton Brasilia, 2003.

Dionisio Gonzlez, Novaacqua-Gasosa II, 2004.

Tuca Vieira, Paraispolis, 2005.

Food trucks, Seattle, 2014.

Detail of Beijing scale model in the Urban Museum.

Xing Danwen, Urban Fiction 0.2004.

Xing Danwen, Urban Fiction 0.2004, detail.

Xing Danwen, Urban Fiction 17.2004.

Xing Danwen, Urban Fiction 17.2004, detail.

Hotel in Qianmen District before demolition in 2008.

Ou Ning, Meishi Street. Zhang Jinli writes a slogan on his house.

Future site of the High Line: building the West Side Line, c. 1933.53

Billboard next to the High Line: Joel Sternfeld, Landscape with Path: A Railroad Artifact, 2011.

View from the High Line: rendering of Whitney Museum of American Art at Gansevoort, 2007 in progress.

Luxury living at the High Line: rendering of 520 West 28th Street.

Rendering of the Lowline at Delancey Street, 2012.

Pop Down: proposal for Mail Rail urban mushroom garden in central London, 2012.

Stills from James Nares, Street, 2011.

Interrupting the street: protesters prepare for the final evictions at Claremont Road, London, 28 November 1994.

Claremont Road, London, summer 1994.

If my house was still there: A12 Eastway, London.

Walking the motorway.

Linear Park, Grove Green Road, London.

Pantin sign and Fred le Chevalier, September 2013.

Grand Moulins, July 2004.

BNP buildings, July 2014.

CCIP building undergoing renovation in 2015.

Da Cruz, CCIP building, September 2013.

CCIP building with swans, September 2013.

CCIP building, July 2013.

A billboard showing a digital visualization of a building under construction in Leeds, UK, June 2013.

Stickers on a visualization of the Leadenhall Building in London, December 2013.

A view of the exhibition Architectural Atmospheres: Digital Placemaking in the Twenty-first Century, held at the Building Centre in London in August 2013.

R. Vincken, Arrow on Street. NorthSouth line.

Krien Clevis, Station Rokin, 2014.

Krien Clevis, Tunnel Rokin, 2014.

Art in Store Fronts, Mission District, San Francisco (April 2010).

Images of the open shop as appeared on the Make:Do blog (November 2010).

Granville Arcade before.

Photograph of Meanwhile Whitechapel pop-up shop.

Abelardo Morell, Brookline View in Bradys Room, 1993.

Abelardo Morell, Times Square in Hotel Room, 1997.

Abelardo Morell, The Chrysler Building in Hotel Room, NY, 1999.

Abelardo Morell, Bostons Old Custom House in Hotel Room, Boston MA, 1999.

Thomas Struth, 6th Avenue at 50th Street, New York, Midtown, 1978.

Thomas Struth, West 44th Street, Theater D, New York, 1978.

Still from The Emerald Forest (dir. John Boorman, 1985).

Still from The Emerald Forest (dir. John Boorman, 1985).

Nature/city contrast in buildering.

Ashley Holland, Guys Hospital.

Builderers grip.

Scaling a wall.

Bobby Gordon-Smith, Rock On Top of Another Rock.

Els Mistos.

Kamila Szejnoch, Swing, installation, memorial to the Berling Army Soldiers, Warsaw, 2008.

Statue of the Duke of Wellington, outside Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow.

Beat Streuli, Bruxelles 05/06 11.

Beat Streuli, Sint-Pieters Station, Ghent, 2011.

Michael Wolf, Paris Street View No. 28, 2009.

Michael Wolf, Paris Street View No. 9, 2009.

Michael Wolf, Paris Street View No. 27, 2009.

Beat Streuli, The Pallasades, 2001.

Akbar Abbas is a Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. Previously he was Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong and also Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures. His research interests include globalization, Hong Kong and Chinese culture, architecture, cinema, postcoloniality and critical theory. He is the author of Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance (University of Minnesota Press, 1997).

Hugh Campbell is Professor of Architecture at UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, Dublin. He is editor of Architecture 16002000, volume 4 of Art and Architecture of Ireland (Yale University Press, 2014). With Nathalie Weadick he curated Irelands pavilion at the 2008 Venice Biennale, The Lives of Spaces. His current research focuses on the relationship between photography and spatial identity as manifested in architecture and in cities.

Monica Degen is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Sociology at Brunel University, London. Her interdisciplinary work focuses on the sociology of the senses, urban cultures, the politics of the everyday, and the experience of design and architecture. She is the author of Sensing Cities (Routledge, 2008) and The Meta-City Barcelona: Transformation of a Metropolis (Anthropos, 2008).

Mara Ferreri is a Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Durham, UK. She holds an MA in Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths College, and completed her doctoral thesis, titled Occupying Vacant Spaces: Precarious Politics of Temporary Urban Reuse, in the School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London. Among her research interests are temporary spatial practices in the city, cultural and socio-spatial dynamics of contested urban transformation, and conditions and experiences of urban precarity.

Gillian Jein is an academic in French Studies at Bangor University. Her research coheres around issues relating to the aesthetics and politics at stake in the articulation of place in global cities, with an empirical focus on travel writing and visual practices. Her books include a co-edited volume, Aesthetics of Dislocation in French and Francophone Literature and Art: Strategies of Representation (2009) and a monograph, Urban Crossings: Alternative Modernities in French Travel Writing, 18512000 (forthcoming, 2016). Her current project examines the cultural politics of spatial affect in practices of suburban renewal in France and has been funded by the British Academy and Modern Humanities Research Association.

Shirley Jordan is Professor of French Literature and Visual Culture at Queen Mary University of London. A specialist in contemporary womens writing and visual culture, she has recently worked on photography in autobiography, the photo-text and city photography. Her publications include The Art Criticism of Francis Ponge (1994), Contemporary French Womens Writing (2004) and a range of articles on contemporary photography which explore the poetics of scale, interruption and the street, focusing in particular on practitioners such as Stphane Couturier, Valrie Jouve and Denis Darzacq.

Jeroen de Kloet is Professor of Globalization Studies and Director of the Amsterdam Centre for Globalization Studies (ACGS) at the University of Amsterdam. His work focuses on cultural globalization, in particular in the context of East Asia. In 2010 he published