About the Book
Today, the world is facing climate change, wealth inequality, housing crises, food shortages, mass migration, and now a global health pandemic. Cities are at the heart of both these problems and their solutions. Urban communication scholars are well-poised to examine the change initiatives that are both caused and inspired by such complex problems. This volume provides a collection of urban communication research focused on how examining change through the lens of communication provides unique processual understandings of cities as dynamic sites formed through the interplay between concrete cases and conceptual ideas. The first section, Change through Institutional Intervention, addresses how diverse societal institutions—including policy, regulation, planning, and voluntary arts—interplay with changes in our urban communities. The second section, Change in Place and through Space, explores various ways in which spaces and places are able to transform through communicative practice, specifically focusing on how space and place provide unique frames for communicating change and influencing interaction in cities. The third section, Change through Participation and Engagement, collectively draws attention to the ways that public participation and engagement are utilized in cities in ways that enhance the communication both within and about them, focusing specifically on how this happens globally in teaching and learning environments, community planning partnerships, industrial site redevelopment projects, and approaches to food sovereignty in urban agricultural initiatives.
Table of Contents:
erin daina mcclellan, Boise State University, U.S., Yongjun Shin, Bridgewater State University, U.S. & Curry Chandler, University of Pittsbu rgh, U.S: Introduction: Cities as Communicative Change Agents – Change through Institutional Intervention – Kaitlyn Haynal, University of Pittsbu rgh, U.S: Planning for Change: The Rhetorical (Re)invention of Urban Parks – Scott Tulloch, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY , U.S: Styling Sustainable Atlanta: Touring the BeltLine and Public Performances of Concordance – Yongjun Shin, Bridgewater State University, U.S: Social Capital and Social Change in Urban Politics: Understanding a Local Policy Case from an Urban Communication Perspective – Adrienne E. Hacker- D aniels, Illinois College, U.S: ‘Ain’t Too Proud to Beg’ or Advertise: The First Amendment Implications of Advertising and Panhandling on the New York City Mass Transit System – Deepika Jauhari, DARS , New Delhi, India: From Margins to Mainstream: The Changing Street Art Scenario in Delhi – Change in Place and through Space – Carolin Aronis, University of Colorado- Boulder, U.S: The “Tweeting” Discourse of Balconies and Porches in the City: Identity Politics, Public Speaking, and Social Change – Shub hda Arora, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, India, Juhi Jotwani, Foundation for Liberal and Management Education (FLAME ) University, India & Prachiti Mane, Foundation for Liberal and Management Education (FLAME ) University, India: Gentrification of Lavale: Changing Spatiality and the Making of a Rural- Urban Complex – Jin- A e Kang, East Carolina University, U.S. & Brittany M. W. Thompson, East Carolina University, U.S: Talking to Urban People: An Exploration of Farmers’ Social Media Storytelling Strategies – Curry Chandler, University of Pittsbu rgh, U.S: Baseball Fields of Care: Urban Sportscapes, Neighborhood Change, and the Gentrification of Commemorative Space – Susan J. Drucker, Hofstra University, U.S. & Gary Gumpert, Emeritus, Queens College, CUNY , U.S: Playing Outside: The Transformation of Children’s’ Urban Play – Change through Participation and Engagement – erin daina mcclellan, Boise State University, U.S. & Christina L. Ivey, Boise State University, U.S: City Living: The Significance of Critical Pedagogy for Urban Communication – Iben Brinch Jørgensen, University of South- E astern Norway, Norway: Changing Place Identity by Visual Design? A Rhetorical Field Study of a Post- Industrial Place Development Project – Grete Swensen, Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NI KU), Norway: Between Visions and Realities: Testing Shared Governance in Adaptive Reuse of Industrial Heritage – Solón Calero, Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Colombia & Carmen C. Rivera, Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Colombia: Urban Agriculture in the City of Cali, Colombia and Communicatio for Social Change – List of Contributors.
