Maeda Ai was a prominent literary critic and an influential public intellectual in late-twentieth-century Japan. Text and the City is the first book of his work

Argues that landscapes are not only culturally produced, but they also influence governing ideas of political and religious life.

The essays in this collection discuss how the city is ‘textualized’, and address many aspects of how texts and images are written and produced in, and about

The City as Photographic Text offers the first comprehensive presentation of photography on São Paulo. But more than just a study of one city’s photographic

In the mid-nineteenth century, Jerusalem was rich with urban texts inscribed in marble, gold, and cloth, investing holy sites with divine meaning. Ottoman moder