[Discussion] CFP: Citing Cities (7/1/05; e-journal issue)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

EnterText vol.5 no.2

Citing Cities

Cities play a special role in theoretical constructs of the social order
as well as providing a key part of history. Submissions to this special
issue of EnterText, a refereed free-access online journal
(www.brunel.ac.uk/faculty/arts/entertext) are invited by 1 July 2005 on
their significance, in the past, present or future, whether as
actualities, representations or myths. Suitable topics for discursive or
creative work include:

*	the city as cultural text
*	utopias and dystopias
*	rus in urbe: the green dream
*	changing concepts of the citizen
*	what price =E2=80=98civilisation=E2=80=99?
*	the iconography of urban space
*	the urban hinterland, service and mobility
*	the place of the symbolic city in constructions of nation or religion
*	urban decay and regeneration
*	the city as locus of war and peace: parables of power
*	cultural diversity and the urban mosaic
*	the colonial in the postcolonial city
*	global cities: the shaping forces



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