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Abstract: According to the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association there are ∼75million dogs living as companion animals in the country and ∼39% of all households include a dog. Because a significant population of dogs live in urban areas, there has been a growing interest in improving where and how dogs can inhabit city spaces. One result of this interest has been the rise of dog parks or off-leash dog areas – often inside of, or attached to, public parks. These dog parks, however, are not without controversy. At the heart of the controversy are two interrelated questions: (1) where and how do the needs of other species become incorporated into urban spaces? and (2) what is the place of dogs in the conceptual identity of urban residents? To answer these questions we used Kansas City, Missouri, as a case study because it is an urban area of ∼100,000 dogs (∼400,000 humans), one established dog park, and a recent political battle over establishing a second. We combine theoretical grounding in animal and urban geographies with data from a news media analysis, a small-scale resident survey, a content analysis of public comments, and interviews to demonstrate that as the urban human–dog relationship changes in the private space of the home it is driving new urban identities and new configurations of public spaces. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The article focuses on the written representation of the relationship between Spanish cities, their patron saints and nationalist sentiment in 13th to 17th century Andalusian historiographic discourse. The author reflects on the religious dimension of Spanish nationalism during this period and the use of saints as symbols of belonging. She explores various ways in which urban spaces were sacralized including the possession of relics of saints, the creation of images of saints and accounts of saintly apparitions.

In this article, the authors explore recent developments in urban regeneration in Istanbul, and specifically in the important historic district of Beyoğlu. In one respect, these developments, which are linked to the promotion of cruise ship tourism, are on the same predictable lines as neoliberal projects in other cities across the world. Significantly, in the Istanbul context, local agency is being sidelined, and projects are being financed and managed through the intervention of the central state. In this Turkish version of urban transformation, however, there is a locally distinctive aspect that merits attention. Istanbul is a city that was conquered by the Ottomans in 1453, and the discourse of conquest has remained significant within the urban imaginary. And at the present time, it is being mobilized by the state and its cultural ministry, in the cause of creating a new urban image conforming to its Islamist principles. The key project involves the establishment of what is called the Beyoğlu Cultural Route, which is essentially a touristic itinerary. The authors argue that the state's initiatives, and the route project in particular, involve an erasure—a conquest—of Beyoğlu's legacy of cosmopolitan values. This discussion explores what has been of civic and cultural value in the lifeworld of Beyoğlu, past and present. Resistance to the state's control of resources and institutions, and to its conquest ideology, needs to be grounded in civic principles open to diversity and difference in the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A concept of a specifically "urban imaginary of nature" is developed through a dialectical (re)reading of Georg Simmel's and Louis Wirth's seminal texts on the nature of urbanism. We then examine how this urban imaginary is mobilized through the politics of nature in metropolitan Portland, Oregon. We demonstrate that the logic of Oregon's "Urban Growth Boundary" land-use policy promises the retrieval and spatial demarcation of a fading "nature" threatened by urbanization itself. We then examine how Portland's metropolitan planning agency ("Metro") imagines ways in which the urban growth boundary can reconcile and spatially delimit an "invisible line" where the urban ends and nature begins. These policies set the conditions through which Portland can market itself as the "green city." We conclude by arguing for a more radical and denaturalized political imaginary that takes into account the socioecological constitution of the urban "metabolism" itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ‘smart city’ is an oft-cited techno-urban imaginary promoted by businesses and governments alike. It thinks big, and is chiefly imagined in terms of large-scale information communications systems that hinge on the collection of real-time and so-called ‘big data’. Less talked about are the human-scale implications and user-experience of the smart city. Much of the current academic scholarship on smart cities offers synoptic and technical perspectives, leaving the users of smart systems curiously unaccounted for. While they purport to empower citizens, smart cities initiatives are rarely focused at the citizen-scale, nor do they necessarily attend to the ways initiatives can be user-led or co-designed. Drawing on the outcomes of a university studio, this article rethinks the smart city as a series of urban scales—metropolis, community, individual, and personal—and proposes an analytical model for classifying smart city initiatives in terms of engagement. Informed by the theory of proxemics, the model proposed analyses smart city initiatives in terms of the scope of their features and audience size; the actors accountable for their deployment and maintenance; their spatial reach; and the ability of design solutions to re-shape and adapt to different urban scenarios and precincts. We argue that the significance of this model lies in its potential to facilitate modes of thinking across and between scales in ways that can gauge the levels of involvement in the design of digitally mediated urban environments, and productively re-situate citizens as central to the design of smart city initiatives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The author through this paper hypothesis that the role urban form plays in the act of rituals contributes to an urban imagery that is embedded in various formal and informal socio-spatial processes and practises. By studying the yearly Karaga jatre (ritual) in Bangalore, India ethnographically and spatially, the paper describes the ritual’s relevance to urban form, its role in sustaining collective memory and attachment, while conveying the process of urban image making. The Karaga ritual, as a visual and spatial narrative, acts as a powerful mnemonic for the city, where a rekindling of an affiliation between its people, its urban form, and memory occurs. Over a period of eleven days annually, public and semi-public spaces within the historic core transforms to accommodate over twenty thousand people creating a powerful urban imagery. By expanding on the urban performance of the ritual and linking it to an urban imaginary of the megacity of Bangalore, this paper explores the transformation and making of urban public space, and the various tactics involved in creating this temporary urban spectacle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study analyzes 13 maps of the imaginary of Mexico City throughout a period of five centuries in the history of the metropolis, in order to understand both the urban memory and the imaginaries that sustain the current representations that this great city inspires in today's residents. In the antique maps shown, the prevailing urban imaginary can be observed in each period from the 16th to the 20th century. In spite of the city's transformations and its representations, there are elements that help recreate the urban memory (mythical, social, architectural) that sustains its territorial identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the heart of this new and effervescent medieval city that distorts and challenges poetic representation, the tavern and the fair, both common places (in the literal and rhetorical senses of this term) of re-cognition and deformity, both hypostasis of evil and promise of a utopian satisfaction of desire, become an eloquent metaphor of the ambiguous and paradoxical nature of the urban imaginary characterized by of an infinite reversibility of the sign and of the semantic poles of images. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the decline of the creative city as a global policy concept that inspired cities around the world. Topics discussed include the popularity of the creative city as part of urban imaginary for elites, politicians and art and culture practitioners in the 1990s, the emergence of the ordinary city concept as reiterated by geographers and the Foundational Economy Collective, and increase in criticism of the creative city concept following the Global Financial Crisis.

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As ambivalent hero of the urban imaginary of the nineteenth century, the flâneur enjoys the licence to loiter in the streets and look at the spectacle of the crowds and the hall of mirrors of the city scene. However, feminist inquiry has dislocated the flâneur's panoramic embrace of sites/sights of authority, and reconfigured the gendered mastery of urban perception by the all-seeing voyeur. Benjaminian approaches have focused on the production of art in an age of mass consumption and the flâneur's seduction by the erotics of capitalist consumption and commodity fetishism. Building on both interpretations, this article performs sensual re-readings of novels and essays by Balzac, Vallès, and Colette, in order to recapture the rich potential of the senses in the activities of walking, feeling, and representing the city. The embodied experience of boundaries undoes three hierarchies: the gendered and class divisions of social spheres, and the division of the senses into higher and lower faculties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study uses an interdisciplinary framework inspired by Rancière (1991, 2009, 2010) ideas such as intellectual equality, redistribution of the sensible, and aesthetic heterogenesis to analyze the production of video-narratives of self and place within a group of Latino eight-year-olds attending public school in Milwaukee. The essay film, with its specific formulation through the self-portrait, operates as Rancière's "third things" in a pedagogical encounter that searches for new visibilities for urban childhood through a learner-centered model that acknowledges the creative capacities of urban children, their contributions to the urban imaginary of the city, and their cultural status within communities of sense. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Drawing upon the fanfare surrounding the first Miss Toronto pageant in 1926, this essay demonstrates how the city used the popularity of the pageant format to prescribe ideas tied to modern Canadian femininity. The winner of the 1926 Miss Toronto pageant, Jean Ford Tolmie, became a focal point for competing ideas about modern and traditional Toronto womanhood. Published in the same year, Mazo de la Roche's novel, Delight, which arguably contains an early example of the Modern Girl in Canadian literature, may be read as a reflection of these growing tensions through her examination of urban modernity coming up against rural traditionalism in a small Ontario town. Through the character Delight, de la Roche raises questions associated with the inherent public threat of the self-possessed Canadian Modern Girl and her place in the city. Ultimately, this comparative analysis of the Modern Girl in the 1926 Miss Toronto pageant and her fictional counterpart in Delight calls attention to her importance in shaping Toronto's urban imaginary in the 1920s while simultaneously calling attention to the city's ambivalence toward its modernity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this article, the author examines how the cable station CITY-TV in Toronto, Ontario, participates in constructing civic identity and unity. According to the author, the cable station fashions an urban identity of attractions. She argues that the para-social space of the station's broadcasts also become a means by which residents feel they participate in decisions surrounding urban infrastructure and redevelopment. She subsequently situates how television is implicated in a city's urban imaginary.

Pocket Park, small areas that can make up for the emptiness, abandonment and no function of many spaces that are located within our cities, triggering processes of urban regeneration through the discovery of a new "life" and a new potentiality to accommodate. This must be rediscovered and brought to light so as to realize and perceive a different urban imaginary. A product of urban interior design that is confronted with large courtyards: rooms without roof, this product can improve the quality of everyday life, designed to be together and to know the other's culture, where the confrontation between people is based on the sharing of the common space, living outdoors to accommodate people and make them feel like "home", and together with the people ... with all the other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Pocket Park, small areas that can make up for the emptiness, abandonment and no function of many spaces that are located within our cities, triggering processes of urban regeneration through the discovery of a new "life" and a new potentiality to accommodate. This must be rediscovered and brought to light so as to realize and perceive a different urban imaginary. A product of urban interior design that is confronted with large courtyards: rooms without roof, this product can improve the quality of everyday life, designed to be together and to know the other's culture, where the confrontation between people is based on the sharing of the common space, living outdoors to accommodate people and make them feel like "home", and together with the people ... with all the other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]