This anthology presents a range of interdisciplinary explorations into the urban environment, through film, photography, digital imagery, maps and signage.

Alan Marcus is a Reader in Film and Visual Culture and Head of the Film Programme at the University of Aberdeen. He is a cultural historian and filmmaker and as former Director of the Centre for Screen Studies at the University of Manchester he chaired the international conference Visualising the City in 2005.

Dietrich Neumann is Professor for the History of Modern Architecture and Urban Studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and the Vincent Scully Visiting Professor for the History of Architecture at Yale University.

Introduction Part 1: Reflecting on the City 1. Haptic Space: Film and the Geography of Modernity Giuliana Bruno 2. Early Film and the Reproduction of Rio Maite Conde 3. Visualizing the Urban Masses: Modern Architecture and Architectural Photography in Weimar Berlin Sabine Hake Part 2: Remembering and Reinventing the City 4. Beautiful Dachau's Contested Urban Identity Alan Marcus 5. The Contested City: Beirut in Lebanese War Cinema Lina Khatib 6. Tribute in Light: Iconography of a Memorial Dietrich Neumann Part 3: Reframing and Reshaping the City 7. Out on a Limb? Urban Traumas on the West Pacific Rim Stephanie Hemelryk Donald 8. The City Being Itself: the Case of Paris in La Haine François Penz 9. Composing London Visually Robert Tavernor Part 4: Revisualizing the City 10. The VJ of the Everyday: Remixing the Urban Visual Scott Burnham 11. Employee Entrances and Emergency Exits: Exposing the Invisible Imagery of Consumption David Michalski 12. Rain in the City Jill Stoner