Walking and Performing “the City”: A Melbourne Chronicle

Bridge, Gary (Herausgeber:in) / Watson, Sophie (Herausgeber:in) / Rossiter, Benjamin (Autor:in) / Gibson, Katherine (Autor:in)

The New Blackwell Companion to the City ; 488-498

Wiley‐Blackwell Companions to Geography

25.02.2011

11 pages

9781444395105 , 9781405189811

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395105.ch43

Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)

Elektronische Ressource

Englisch

walking, flashes of illumination ‐ chance stumblings, reshaping urban knowledge , new spatializations of the city ‐ loosening hold, of historicist narratives of restructuring and postmodern decay , two stories of the city ‐ standing out in stark contrast , narrative of urban decay, doom and civic destruction ‐ filmic representation of North American cities in Independence Day , practice of walking and reflection on urban walks ‐ counter‐discourse of the urban , Urban Dream Capsule (UDC), 1996 Melbourne Festival by surprise ‐ members of crowd communicating with performers , walking and performing “the City” ‐ A Melbourne Chronicle, shock to return to the street and to resume walking in a city in throes of celebrating the urban , City of Melbourne ‐ hosting a regular International Arts Festival , story of urban/moral order under threat ‐ mayhem in streets, physical destruction and rebirth of technologically mediated social order , poetics of walking, encounters with city fragments ‐ and dead city syndrome