Cities interrupted: visual culture and urban space

'Cities Interrupted' explores the potential of visual culture - in the form of photography, film, performance, architecture, urban design, and mixed media - to strategically interrupt processes of globalisation in contemporary urban spaces. Looking at cities such as Amsterdam, Beijing, Doha, London, New York, and Paris, it brings together original essays to reveal how the concept of 'interruption' in global cities enables new understanding of the forms of space, experience, and community that are emerging in today's rapidly transforming urban environments.

Visual culture and interruption in global cities / Shirley Jordan -- Why we love 'interruption' : urban ruins, food trucks, and the cult of decay / Richard J. Williams -- Rescuing history from the city : interruption and urban development in Beijing / Jeroen de Kloet -- Interrupting New York : slowness and the high line /Christoph Lindner -- Sound, memory, and interruption : ghosts of London's M11 Link Road / David Pinder -- Suburbia, interrupted : street art and the politics of place in the Paris banlieues / Gillian Jein -- Looking at digital visualizations of urban redevelopment projects : dimming the scintillating glow of unwork / Gillian Rose, Monica Degen, and Clare Melhuish -- "Here We Are Now" : Amsterdam's north-south metro line and the emergence of a networked public / Ginette Verstraete -- Pop-up shops as interruptions in (post-)recessional London / Mara Ferreri -- Interruption expanded : urban photography's perspicacious view / Hugh Campbell -- Buildering, urban interventions, and public sculpture / Bill Marshall -- Interrupting the street / Shirley Jordan.