City as Collective Cultural Space
Apr 27, 2009
Painted wall in Geneva, Switzerland during the G8 summit in Evian 2003. Cities are described in all kinds of ways. They can be understood in geographical and political terms. They can be seen as sites of production and financial centres. Often they are pictured as architectural artifacts, with large infrastructures and constructions. Anthropologist Arjun Appadurai has described them principally as cultural entities that emerge at junctions of a multitude of flows or “scapes:” mediascapes,
