Aiello, G orcid.org/0000-0002-9636-1016 (2021) Communicating the “world-class” city: a visual-material approach. Social Semiotics, 31 (1). pp. 136-154. ISSN 1035-0330
Abstract
In this article, I demonstrate my visual-material approach to researching the urban built environment as a medium of communication in its own right. Specifically, I discuss my research on second-tier cities with “world-class” aspirations, which highlights the significance of both symbolic and material resources in processes of urban regeneration and redevelopment. A visual-material approach draws not only from social semiotics and multimodality, but also from critical and material rhetoric to engage with the ways in which increasingly widespread “formats” of urban regeneration and redevelopment are mobilized to transform the urban built environment in the service of a globally appealing aesthetic. In doing so, this is also an approach that illuminates the dialectical relationship between cities’ perceived necessity to appear competitive on a heavily mediatized global stage and to intervene on their landscape in ways that mediate the everyday lives of urban communities in lasting ways.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Social Semiotics. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Urban regeneration, world-class cities, second-tier cities, visual-material analysis, urban communication |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 24 Sep 2020 11:19 |
Last Modified: | 13 Jul 2022 10:40 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/10350330.2020.1810551 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:165695 |