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Infrastructure and intervention on the comics page: An interview with Dominic Davies about his book Urban Comics (2019) 漫画页面上的基础设施和干预:采访多米尼克·戴维斯关于他的书《城市漫画》(2019)

Journal of Urban Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1386/jucs_00058_7

Benjamin Fraser

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The architectural features of socio-spatial transformation in Hassan Al-Imam’s Cairo Trilogy 哈桑·阿勒伊玛目开罗三部曲中社会空间转换的建筑特征

Journal of Urban Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1386/jucs_00055_1

Sameh El-Feki, Taher Abdel Ghani

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From museum aesthetics to everyday aesthetics: Narratives about Saigon in The Lover by Jean-Jacques Annaud and Bar Girls by Le Hoang 从博物馆美学到日常美学:让-雅克·阿诺的《情人》和黄乐的《酒吧女郎》对西贡的叙述

Journal of Urban Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1386/jucs_00053_1

Thi Nhu Trang Nguyen

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Las ciudades que somos (‘The cities we are’): A review of three Latin American comics by women creators 《我们所在的城市》(Las ciudades que somos):回顾三部拉丁美洲女性创作者创作的漫画

Journal of Urban Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI: 10.1386/jucs_00059_1

Benjamin Fraser

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A city within itself: Altgeld Gardens and public housing’s utopia 自成一体的城市:阿尔特盖尔德花园和公共住房的乌托邦

Journal of Urban Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/jucs_00047_1

Madeleine Hamlin

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Mapping the urban conditions in the digital age, one building at a time: A case of A Little Bit of Beijing 描绘数字时代的城市状况，一次一座建筑:一点点北京的案例

Journal of Urban Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/jucs_00049_1

Wen Lin

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Towards a post-anthropocentric aesthetics: Kerry Tribe’s Exquisite Corpse 走向后人类中心主义美学:克里部落的精致尸体

Journal of Urban Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/jucs_00051_1

Keith Harris

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Fear, funding and fans: Rolé Carioca’s walking tours and infrastructures of flânerie 恐惧、资金和粉丝：RoléCarioca的徒步旅行和flânerie的基础设施

Journal of Urban Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/jucs_00052_1

Victoria Adams

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The sinister side of transparency in architecture and social media in Ray Loriga’s Rendición (Surrender) (2017) Ray Loriga的《Rendición（投降）》（2017）中建筑和社交媒体透明度的险恶一面

Journal of Urban Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/jucs_00046_1

Diana Q. Palardy

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New York metropolitan: Urban modernity in The Age of Innocence 纽约大都会:纯真时代的都市现代性

Journal of Urban Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/jucs_00048_1

Sophia Basaldua-Sun

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