Performance and the City [Hardcover]

Urban studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor? Performance and the City queries the role theatre and performance play in urban policy, architecture, and civic history, while also exploring their important place in the memories created in the wake of urban trauma.List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: City/Text/Performance; K.Solga with D.J.Hopkins & S.Orr PART I: PEDESTRIANISMS, OR REMEMBERING THE CITY Pedestrianisms or Remembering the City: Introduction; D.J.Hopkins Ways to Walk New York After 9/11; M.Carlson Memory/Memorial/Performance: Lower Manhattan, 1776 / 2001; D.J.Hopkins & S.Orr Patricide and the Passerby; R.Schneider PART II: URBAN PERFORMANCE AND CULTURAL POLICY Urban Performance and Cultural Policy: Introduction; K.Solga Multicultural Text, Intercultural Performance: The Performance Ecology of Contemporary Toronto; R.Knowles Mission Accomplished: Broadway, 9/11, and the Republican National Convention; R.A.Rugg Performing the Civic Transnational: Cultural Production, Governance, and Citizenship in Contemporary London; M.McKinnie PART III: PERFORMING (FOR) ONE ANOTHER: CONSTRUCTING COMMUNITIES Performing (for) One Another: Introduction; S.Orr Surviving the City: Press Agents, Publicity Stunts, and the Spectacle of the Urban Female Body; M.Schweitzer Dress Suits to Hire and the Landscape of Queer Urbanity; K.Solga Global Exposures: Blur Street and Interurban Self-Portraiture (a photo essay); Curated by K.Irwin, R.Viader Knowles & L.Levin PART IV: AT THE CITY LIMITS At the City Limits: Introduction; K.Solga Staging the Imagined City in Australian Theatre; J.Tompkins Agency and Complicity in 'A Special Civic Room': London's Tate Modern Turbine Hall; J.Harvie Staging a VanislX