ABSTRACT
From the Paris banlieue riots, the London transport bombings, and the Mumbai hotel sieges, to the architectural excesses of global Beijing, the spatial estrangements of vertical New York, and the aesthetic defacements of post-unification Berlin, violence – in both material and cultural forms – has been a prominent and endemic feature of urban life in the global metropolitan era. This interdisciplinary volume addresses the broader cultural significance of globalization by examining treatments of urban violence in contemporary visual culture, including architecture, film, photography, and urban planning and design.
