Our new books: Micro-urbanism. City in details. Ed. by Olga Brednikova and Oksana Zaporozhets. Moscow: New Literary Observer, 2014.

The book is devoted to and inspired by contemporary city. A variety of research approaches grasping the fluidity, plurality and ambiguity of urban life are united by micro-urbanism as a common analytical perspective. See contents.

Micro-urbanism. City in details.Ed. by Olga Brednikova and Oksana Zaporozhets. Moscow: New Literary Observer, 2014.

The book is devoted to and inspired by contemporary city. A variety of research approaches grasping the fluidity, plurality and ambiguity of urban life are united by micro-urbanism as a common analytical perspective. Micro-urbanism is a possibility to look at the city at the close distance, to discern it in nuances and details. It unfolds a dense everyday life of the city and highlights the urbanites as its main actors, who create the city, its places and routes via everyday activities, senses and feelings. Along with the usual, though not quite familiar, urban characters such as public transport passengers, wedding companies and omnipresent tourists, the book introduces relatively new participants of urban life: urban explorers, graffiti writers, sellers and buyers of flea markets, and many other. Vivid narrations bring to life vibrant and emotionally saturated city.

Contents

Thanks… (Acknowledgements)

O. Brednikova, O. Zaporozhets
Micro-urbanism. A trap for the city

 

1

Living the city. Multisensory urban experiences

E. Shevelev
City with(out) humans: practices of reclamation of empty and abandoned spaces

P. Mogilina
The story of one route

A. Ivanova
A choreography of public transport passengers

E. Bunich
Walkman in the city

 

2

“Amusing urban development”: spaces and experiences

A. Vozyanov
“A box for the sound?” On city backyard`s soundscape

O. Pachenkov, L. Voronkova
Flea market as an urban scene

O. Tkach
Wedding in a city: on a promenade

O. Boitsova
City as a photo background: tourist’s experience

 

3

Non-linear past of the city

R. Abramov
“Forgotten in the past”: reclamation of abandoned spaces and the phenomenon of new urban tourism

A. Zhelnina
«Iron, mica, apatite and people’s lives ...». Past and present in the Northern industrial city

 

4

Urban cords: piecing together a city puzzle

L. Khaliullina
From the point A to the point B… State Traffic Safety Inspectorate and urban roads

E. Lapina-Kratasyuk
“Interactive City”: network society and public spaces of metropolis

N. Samutina
Little springs of Hamburg: graffiti writer Oz and the invisible community of those who see