This interdisciplinary book explores the role of art in placemaking in urban environments, analysing how artists and communities use arts to improve their quality of life. It explores the concept of social practice placemaking, where artists and community members as seen as equal experts in the process. Drawing on examples of local level projects from the USA and Europe, the book explores the impact of these projects on the people involved, on their relationship to the place around them, and on city policy and planning practice.

Case studies include Art Tunnel Smithfield,...

Human life is intimately woven into place. Through nations and homelands, monuments and sacred sites it becomes the anchorage point for ethnic, cultural and national identities. Yet it is also place that becomes the battlefield, war zone, mass grave, desecrated site and destroyed landscape in the midst or aftermath of cultural wounding.

Much attention has been given to the impact of trauma and violence on human lives across generations, but what of the spaces in which it occurs? How does culturally prescribed violence impact upon place? And how do the non- human species with...

This book bridges theoretical gaps that exist between the meta-concepts of memory, place and identity by positioning its lens on the emplaced practices of commemoration and the remembrance of war and conflict.

This book examines how diverse publics relate to their wartime histories through engagements with everyday collective memories, in differing places. Specifically addressing questions of place-making, displacement and identity, contributions shed new light on the processes of commemoration of war in everyday urban facades "and "within generations of families and national...

This book offers a critical examination of the construction of surfing spaces, examining the where of surfing to explore how surfers order and border the places of the beach, as well as the place of the surfed wave itself. It explores how the surfed wave can be understood as an event that transforms the identity of the participant, evokes relational sensibilities and promotes both spirituality and feelings of home. Theories of non-representation and more-than-representation are adopted to analyse how surfers communicate these embodied experiences to others. The book also investigates how...

This book brings together cutting edge research from leading international scholars to explore the key dimensions of geographies of making and craft, and the different understandings of 'making' therein. It explores the geographies of making practices from the body to the workshop and studio, and the wider socio-cultural, economic, institutional and historical contexts. The place of creative practices in 'making' geographies and worlds is considered, as well as the multiple lives of things in creatively re-working objects. Contributions examine how concerns around the body, matter and...

Night is a fundamental and foundational element of human and animal life on earth, but its interaction with the social has undergone significant transformations over the last thirty years. As the economic activity of the 'daytime' city has advanced into the night, driven by globalization, uses of night as a time of play, a time of sleep, or a time for dissent have increasingly faced conflict.

This book looks globally at the relationship between night and society in contemporary cities. It identifies that while theories of 'planetary urbanisation' have traced the spatial spread of...

The book explores the emerging spatial aspects of digital media from a cultural geographic perspective. It brings together a range of established and newly-emerging scholars to address the complex new spatialities of everyday practices associated with digital cultures and digital technologies. It examine the ways in which new technologies, media, and infrastructure systems become a part of both new and familiar geographical imaginations, spatial relations, and bodily practices.