This handbook is the first multi-faceted and cross-disciplinary overview of how cities can be read through the lens of translation. It is critical reading for researchers, scholars and advanced students in translation studies, linguistics and urban studies.

Tong King Lee is Associate Professor of Translation at the University of Hong Kong.

List of figures and tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Thinking cities through translation

Part I

Key Issues

1. The translational city
2. Rewriting walls in the country you call home: Space as a site for asymmetries
3. Cartography and translation: Mapping and counter-mapping the city
4. Interartefactual translation: Metrolingualism and resemiotization
5. Reclaiming urban spaces through translation: A practitioner's account

Part II

The macrostructures of urban translation: Policies and institutions

6. Language and translation policies in a bilingual city with a multilingual population: The case of Brussels
7. Translating in occupied towns during the First World War: Between hegemonic policies and local practices
8. Urban translation and the 2020 Tokyo Games
9. Remediating lost memories of the city through translation: Istanbul as a space of remembering
10. Translation in global city Singapore: A holistic embrace in a multilingual milieu?
11. Imperial translational spaces and the politics of languages in Austria-Hungary: The case of Lemberg/Lwów/Lviv
12. Cities and desires: Translating Seoul
13. Translation and controversial monuments in Tallinn

Part III

Counter-writing cities: Translation as praxis

14. Translation as translanguaging: Acts of distinction in multilingual karate clubs in London
15. Cape Town as a multilingual city: Policies, experiences and ideologies
16. Translation and the struggle for urban symbolic capital in Cairo
17. Translation and trans-scripting: Languaging practices in the city of Athens
18. Countermapping the city in Dakar: A de-authorized translation
19. Migration, hip hop and translation zones in Delhi
20. Translation and translanguaging in artistic performances in Hong Kong

Part IV

Cities in writing, translation as trope

21. Sites of translation in Melbourne
22. La flâneuse montréalaise translates
23. Phantom translation in New Orleans
24. Translation interrupted: Memorial dissonance in Trieste
25. Autophagy as translation
26. Depicting a translational and transcultural city: Lagos in Nigerian writing

Index