ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses zoocultural landscape framework to map the morphology of Kansas City, Missouri, as a zoöpolis, through film. It provides the context for urban animal and visual animal geographies. The chapter outlines the zoocultural landscape framework before moving into the discussion of how the film Kansas City: An American zoöpolis reveals the "shared lives that grow up between humans and animals" in place. The film uses some economic periods as its structural frame and subsumes time-specific cultural and political relations within the economic frames to present the ebb and flow of the overall zoocultural landscape. A cultural landscape is the successive alteration over time of the material habitat of a sedentary human society responding with growing strength and variety to the dynamic challenges of nature, the society's own needs and desires, and the historical circumstances of different regions in different times.
