Cities Interrupted: Visual Culture and Urban Space

252 Pages·2016·3.68 MB·English

by  Shirley Jordan (editor), Christoph Lindner (editor)

CITIES INTERRUPTED
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CITIES INTERRUPTED
Visual culture and urban space
Edited by
Shirley Jordan and
Christoph Lindner
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CONTENTS
List of illustrations vii
List of contributors x
Foreword xiii
Ackbar Abbas
Acknowledgements xv
1 Visual culture and interruption in global cities 1
Shirley Jordan and Christoph Lindner
PART ONE CRISIS AND RUIN
2 Why we love ‘interruption’: urban ruins, food trucks
and the cult of decay 17
Richard J. Williams
3 Rescuing history from the city: interruption and urban
development in Beijing 31
Jeroen de Kloet
4 Interrupting New York: slowness and the High Line 49
Christoph Lindner
5 Sound, memory and interruption: ghosts of London’s
M11 link road 65
David Pinder
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PART TWO RESISTANCE AND RENEWAL
6 Suburbia, interrupted: street art and the politics of place
in the Paris Banlieues 87
Gillian Jein
7 Looking at digital visualizations of urban redevelopment
projects: dimming the scintillating glow of unwork 105
Gillian Rose, Monica Degen and Clare Melhuish
8 ‘Here we are now’: Amsterdam’s North–South metro line
and the emergence of a networked public 121
Ginette Verstraete
9 Pop- up shops as interruptions in (post-)recessional
London 141
Mara Ferreri
PART THREE BODIES AND SPACE
10 Interruption expanded: urban photography’s
perspicacious view 159
Hugh Campbell
11 Buildering, urban interventions and public sculpture 173
Bill Marshall
12 Interrupting the street 193
Shirley Jordan
References 211
Index 227
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ILLUSTRATIONS
1.1 Jordi Colomer, A narchitekton Brasilia , 2003. 4
1.2 Dionisio González, Novaacqua-Gasosa II , 2004. 6
1.3 Tuca Vieira, P araisópolis , 2005. 7
2.1 Food trucks, Seattle, 2014. 25
3.1 Detail of Beijing scale model in the Urban Museum. 35
3.2 Xing Danwen, U rban Fiction 0.2004. 39
3.3 Xing Danwen, U rban Fiction 0.2004 , detail. 39
3.4 Xing Danwen, U rban Fiction 17.2004 . 40
3.5 Xing Danwen, U rban Fiction 17.2004 , detail. 41
3.6 Hotel in Qianmen District before demolition in 2008. 43
3.7 Ou Ning, Meishi Street. Zhang Jinli writes a slogan on his house. 45
4.1 Future site of the High Line: building the West Side Line, c. 1933. 53
4.2 Billboard next to the High Line: Joel Sternfeld, L andscape with
Path: A Railroad Artifact , 2011. 55
4.3 View from the High Line: rendering of Whitney Museum of
American Art at Gansevoort, 2007 – in progress. 57
4.4 Luxury living at the High Line: rendering of 520 West 28th
Street. 58
4.5 Rendering of the Lowline at Delancey Street, 2012. 60
4.6 ‘Pop Down’: proposal for Mail Rail urban mushroom garden in
central London, 2012. 61
4.7 Stills from James Nares, Street , 2011. 63
5.1 Interrupting the street: protesters prepare for the fi nal evictions
at Claremont Road, London, 28 November 1994. 67
5.2 Claremont Road, London, summer 1994. 67
5.3 ‘If my house was still there’: A12 Eastway, London. 69
5.4 Walking the motorway. 74
5.5 Linear Park, Grove Green Road, London. 77
6.1 Pantin sign and Fred le Chevalier, September 2013. 91
6.2 Grand Moulins , July 2004. 93
6.3 B NP buildings, July 2014. 94
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6.4 CCIP building undergoing renovation in 2015. 100
6.5 Da Cruz, CCIP building, September 2013. 101
6.6 CCIP building with swans, September 2013. 102
6.7 CCIP building, July 2013. 103
7.1 A billboard showing a digital visualization of a building under
construction in Leeds, UK , June 2013. 106
7.2 Stickers on a visualization of the Leadenhall Building in London,
December 2013. 112
7.3 A view of the exhibition ‘Architectural Atmospheres: Digital
Placemaking in the Twenty- fi rst Century’, held at the Building
Centre in London in August 2013. 117
8.1 R. Vincken, Arrow on Street. North–South line . 129
8.2 Krien Clevis, Station Rokin , 2014. 131
8.3 Krien Clevis, Tunnel Rokin , 2014. 132
9.1 Art in Store Fronts , Mission District, San Francisco (April 2010). 143
9.2 Images of the open shop as appeared on the Make:Do blog
(November 2010). 146
9.3 Granville Arcade ‘before’. 148
9.4 Photograph of Meanwhile Whitechapel pop- up shop. 151
10.1 Abelardo Morell, B rookline View in Brady’s Room , 1993. 161
10.2 Abelardo Morell, T imes Square in Hotel Room , 1997. 164
10.3 Abelardo Morell, Th e Chrysler Building in Hotel Room, NY ,
1999. 164
10.4 Abelardo Morell, B oston’s Old Custom House in Hotel Room,
Boston MA , 1999. 165
10.5 Th omas Struth, 6th Avenue at 50th Street, New York, Midtown ,
1978. 169
10.6 Th omas Struth, West 44th Street, Th eater D, New York , 1978. 169
11.1 Still from Th e Emerald Forest (dir. John Boorman, 1985). 174
11.2 Still from Th e Emerald Forest (dir. John Boorman, 1985). 175
11.3 Nature/city contrast in buildering. 175
11.4 Ashley Holland, Guy’s Hospital. 177
11.5 Builderer’s grip. 182
11.6 Scaling a wall. 183
11.7 Bobby Gordon-Smith, Rock On Top of Another Rock. 186
11.8 Els Mistos. 187
11.9 Kamila Szejnoch, Swing , installation, memorial to the Berling
Army Soldiers, Warsaw, 2008. 189
11.10 Statue of the Duke of Wellington, outside Gallery of Modern Art,
Glasgow. 191
12.1 Beat Streuli, Bruxelles 05/06 11 . 196
12.2 Beat Streuli, Sint-Pieters Station, Ghent, 2011. 198
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12.3 Michael Wolf, P aris Street View No. 28 , 2009. 204
12.4 Michael Wolf, P aris Street View No. 9 , 2009. 206
12.5 Michael Wolf, P aris Street View No. 27 , 2009. 207
12.6 Beat Streuli, Th e Pallasades , 2001. 209
ILLUSTRATIONS ix