Review

摘要

Urban maps: instruments of narrative and interpretation in the city by R Brook, N Dunn; Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey, 2011, 264 pages, £50.00 cloth, ISBN 978075467577 Hey, Richard Brook and Nick Dunn have read everything! I'm not kidding. Here, I just opened their book at random and on this page they name-check Stephen Graham, Simon Marven, Manuel Castells, Diller+Scofidio, Greg Lynn, Reiser Umemoto, NOX, MVRDV, Q S Serafijn, and Lars Spuybroek (page 93). I just did it again, and this time I caught Jane Jacobs, Kevin Lynch, Reyner Banham, Peter Hall, Cedric Price, Paul Baker, David Grahame Shane, and Italo Calvino (page 9); and, okay, the Calvino was in text quoted from Shane, but they quote Calvino directly too (on page 100). Situationists, Naomi Klein, Bruno Latour, Edith Piaf, Manual Castells, Mike Davis, Denis Cosgrove, Peter Greenaway, Zephyr, J B Harley, Walter Benjamin, Guy Debord, Taki, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, Andre Breton, Marshall McLuhan, Spike Lee, Henri Lefebvre, Paul Virilio, Space Invader, and KRS1 among many, many, many others mix it up in Urban Maps, like water molecules in the froth of a fountain.