Capitals of punk: DC, Paris, and circulation in the urban underground

cate some strategies in housing policies and urban planning. Chapter 8 discusses the concept of soundscape, which will fascinate some space designers, landscape architects, and even sound artists. Chapter 10 talks about “Downtown Placemaking Plan” in Detroit, which echoes the interests of some urban designers. All chapters are jargon-free making them accessible to people with backgrounds in a wide variety of scholarly fields. This book has successfully explored examples of the embodiment and significance of place and placelessness in the twenty-first century, consolidating the relationship between cultural geography and its cognate fields (e.g., landscape design and urban planning). The book’s focus is on expanding our view of placelessness and it provides many exciting case studies worthy of further discussion and comparison, and it opens the door to additional research possibilities. As the editors indicate, the collection of authors was selected to provide new views on placelessness in the modern era and further promote people-oriented spatial ideas and design forms. Despite the fact that most of the empirical examples are drawn from Australia, they are representative of events happening throughout the Anglo world.