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Imaging the City

JYG, Author

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A Constellation of Image Types

The construction of cities through images persists across disciplines, even as we understand that cities are too complex and diverse a reality to be fully represented as a whole. From Kevin Lynch's seminal publication 'The Image of the City' to contemporary experiences and experiments in chronicling and narrating the trajectory of cities, the pervasiveness of imagery in understanding, representing and formulating cities suggests we need an updated look at how images work and what they might do. 

The term 'image' addresses many types of visual representations: from mental representations to signage and communication to physical likeness to graphical systems. Who produces images and how they are distributed are as much part of the equation of what images do as the visual representations themselves. This constellation addresses the work of thinkers and creative producers who have theorized on the relationship between image and city.  The intent is to examine the different ways we understand images to construct a city, and the types of agency we assign to images in this capacity. It attempts to ask how visual representation through sources such as art, film and writings contribute to the construction of the city, and gathers varying critical positions taken on by theorists, urbanists, social scientists, architects and artists on these issues. Some topics to be touched on: mental representations of the city, brandscapes and replication, objective and subjective mappings of the city, filmic representation and collective imagination. Underlying this investigation is the idea that each image-city theory carries specific ontological attitudes related to the visual, to information and to knowledge(s). 

The constellation is organized in five parts. For a purview of all, please follow the path below. 

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