Sentences with phrase «contemporary urban geography»

These break the boundary between present and past, merge into contemporary urban geography, economics and the environmental sciences, and bring a time depth which makes «presenting the past to the public» — the title of Ottaway's closing chapter — a more immediate exercise.

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Often incorporating references to place and geography, these works not only extend the possibilities of contemporary painting but also offer an unusual and highly individual reflection of the class -, race -, and gender - based economies and realities that make up urban society in the United States.

Through a series of concrete and abstract geographies and their latent meanings, in A Staggering Territory Asbjørn Skou offers a critical perspective on contemporary urban planning and its consequences which are presented as a precarious terrain balancing between disaster and utopia.

Anne Maree Barry's artistic practice uses film to address connections within contemporary urban space, uniting ideas of memory, narrative, geography, sociology and architecture.