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https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/B/Ben-Katchor3 Affordable paperback @ $20.00!! The first book dedicated to exploring the comics of Ben Katchor Description The recipient of a 2000 MacArthur ...

https://urbanculturalstudies.wordpress.com/2023/11/01/urban-comics-ben-katchor-biographix-book/

CfP: The Journal of Urban Cultural Studies invites submission of abstracts to be included in the interactive short paper session at the Association of American Geographers Conference to be held ...

https://urbanculturalstudies.wordpress.com/2022/11/09/association-of-american-geographers-conference-to-be-held-march-23-27-2023-in-denver/

Reviews “Barcelona, City of Comics is a must-read for anyone in comics studies and in urban cultural studies—and for any reader curious about comics, Spain, cities, and architecture. Fascina...

https://urbanculturalstudies.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/new-in-paperback-barcelona-city-of-comics-suny-2022-with-foreword-by-pere-joan-discount-available-until-dec-31/

Kerry Tribe, the director of Exquisite Corpse — a video project which documents life along the Los Angeles River — was generous enough to provide this excerpt of her film to accompany my fort...

https://urbanculturalstudies.wordpress.com/2022/05/23/excerpt-from-kerry-tribes-exquisite-corpse/

In Boston, a freeway runs through Chinatown. Actually two do: I-90, the barreling East – West interstate that stretches from Boston in Massachusetts to Seattle in Washington State, and I-93, a...

https://urbanculturalstudies.wordpress.com/2022/04/24/lily-xie-and-jenny-henderson-on-washing-%E6%B4%97%E4%BD%9C-memorializing-vibrant-art-and-community-despite-displacement-caused-by-freeways-through-bostons-chinatown/

It’s October, which means only two things: Halloween, and horror films. Within the genre of horror, cities play an active role as settings, characters, and themes. In William Friedkin’s ‘Th...

https://urbanculturalstudies.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/scary-cities-the-urban-as-protagonist-antagonist-in-horror-films/

Cities Under Stress: Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, Resistance, and Renewal The Third International Conference of the Association for Literary Urban Studies (ALUS) University of Califor...

https://urbanculturalstudies.wordpress.com/2021/08/09/cities-under-stress-urban-discourses-of-crisis-resilience-resistance-and-renewal/

In 1969, New Communities was established in the state of Georgia as the largest single tract of Black-owned farmland in the United States. This was achieved through the community land trust (CLT)...

https://urbanculturalstudies.wordpress.com/2021/04/15/community-land-trusts-and-the-arts-a-path-to-permanency/

There is a stretch of I-90 in Eastern Washington that could make you forget the pandemic. From Cle Elum to Spokane the highway unfolds like a hallucination, two hundred miles of lonesome sky. You...

https://urbanculturalstudies.wordpress.com/2021/02/18/arts-in-place-thoughts-on-being/

I am excited to introduce two new writers for the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies Blog: Jonathan Banfill and Danielle McClune! Jonathan Banfill is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studi...

https://urbanculturalstudies.wordpress.com/2021/02/12/introducing-jonathan-banfill-and-danielle-mcclune-two-new-writers-for-the-journal-of-urban-cultural-studies-blog/