Communication, Culture, and Making Meaning in the City

Ahmet Atay is associate professor at the College of Wooster. Jay Brower is associate professor and chair of communication at Western Connecticut State University.

• ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction City as ImageChapter 1Women’s Political Visualization of Post-Conflict BelfastJolene Mairs DyerChapter 2Urban Alienation and Native Americans in The ExilesKathleen M. German Chapter 3Mapping Sarajevo-The City and Its RepresentationsJoanna ZielinskaCity as Mobility Chapter 4Post-Industrial Cities Under Microscope: Discovering Akron and NorthamptonAhmet AtayChapter 5Walking the Geography of DifferenceJay BrowerChapter 6Cycling in the City: An Actor-Network-Theory Perspective on Urban PracticesCraig L. EngstromCity as Past Chapter 7Walking, Sensing and Making Places: A Reflection on Ethnography of Walking in Yokohama and VancouverJulia Aoki and Ayaka YoshimizuChapter 8“Ancient-izing” the Modern Chinese Cities: (Re)Constructing Space, History, and National IdentityJoy Yang JiaoChapter 9Being Walked Through the City: Negotiating Countercultural Memory in San FranciscoRyan M. LescureCity as RelationshipChapter 10View Over Bristol: Tryers, Creativity and Civic ImaginaryShawn Sobers, Jonathan Dovey, and Emma AgusitaChapter 11You look like Detectives’: Alcohol Outreach Nursing as a form of Mobile Care and Clinical InvestigationMartin WhitefordChapter 12Strategic Liminality and Trans-regional Mobility: Engaging Diverse City Spaces to Constitute and Negotiate Intersectional Identities of Newfound Class Privilege, Repressed Ethnic Anger, and the (In)visibility of Gay (Male) LifeEric AokiAbout the Editors and Contributors

Atay and Brower have brought together compelling ethnographic accounts from a variety of fascinating cities. The communicative dimensions of urban spaces are revealed through the interpretation and critique of human existence where planning and order meet improvisation and fluidity.