Urban Communication Reader IV : Cities as Communicative Change Agents

Erin Daina Mcclellan

ISBN 10: 1433181568 / ISBN 13: 9781433181566

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang, 2021

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Today, the world is facing climate change, wealth inequality, housing crises, food shortages, mass migration, and now a global health pandemic. Cities are at the heart of both these problems and their solutions. Urban communication scholars are well-poised to examine the change initiatives that are both caused and inspired by such complex problems. This volume provides a collection of urban communication research focused on how examining change through the lens of communication provides unique processual understandings of cities as dynamic sites formed through the interplay between concrete cases and conceptual ideas. The first section, Change through Institutional Intervention, addresses how diverse societal institutions-including policy, regulation, planning, and voluntary arts-interplay with changes in our urban communities. The second section, Change in Place and through Space, explores various ways in which spaces and places are able to transform through communicative practice, specifically focusing on how space and place provide unique frames for communicating change and influencing interaction in cities. The third section, Change through Participation and Engagement, collectively draws attention to the ways that public participation and engagement are utilized in cities in ways that enhance the communication both within and about them, focusing specifically on how this happens globally in teaching and learning environments, community planning partnerships, industrial site redevelopment projects, and approaches to food sovereignty in urban agricultural initiatives.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Urban Communication Reader IV : Cities as Communicative Change Agents
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1433181568
• ISBN 13: 9781433181566
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 225W x 150H x 20D millimeters 225 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 498 grams

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Synopsis

Today, the world is facing climate change, wealth inequality, housing crises, food shortages, mass migration, and now a global health pandemic. Cities are at the heart of both these problems and their solutions. Urban communication scholars are well-poised to examine the change initiatives that are both caused and inspired by such complex problems. This volume provides a collection of urban communication research focused on how examining change through the lens of communication provides unique processual understandings of cities as dynamic sites formed through the interplay between concrete cases and conceptual ideas. The first section, Change through Institutional Intervention, addresses how diverse societal institutions―including policy, regulation, planning, and voluntary arts―interplay with changes in our urban communities. The second section, Change in Place and through Space, explores various ways in which spaces and places are able to transform through communicative practice, specifically focusing on how space and place provide unique frames for communicating change and influencing interaction in cities. The third section, Change through Participation and Engagement, collectively draws attention to the ways that public participation and engagement are utilized in cities in ways that enhance the communication both within and about them, focusing specifically on how this happens globally in teaching and learning environments, community planning partnerships, industrial site redevelopment projects, and approaches to food sovereignty in urban agricultural initiatives.

About the Author

erin daina mcclellan (Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder) is Associate Professor at Boise State University.. Yongjun Shin (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison) is Associate Professor at Bridgewater State University. Curry Chandler (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh) is a Visiting Instructor at the University of Pittsburgh.