Looking at cities such as Amsterdam, Beijing, Doha, London, New York, and Paris, the book brings together original essays to reveal how the concept of 'interruption' in global cities enables new understanding of the forms of space, experience, and community that are emerging in today's rapidly transforming urban environments. 
The idea of 'interruption' addressed in this book refers to deliberate interventions in the spaces and communities of contemporary cities – interventions that seek to disrupt or destabilize the experience of everyday urban life through creative practice. Interruption is used as an analytic and conceptual tool to challenge – and explore alternatives to – the narratives of speed, hyper-mobility, rapid growth, and incessant exchange and flow that have dominated critical thinking on global cities.

The book is the result of a two-year international research network on art and global cities jointly funded by the AHRC and NWO, with additional support from the Amsterdam Centre for Globalization Studies.

Cities Interrupted: Visual Culture and Urban Space

• Editor(s): Shirley Jordan, Christoph Lindner
• Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
• ISBN 9781474224413