The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space

Iain Borden
Iain Borden is Director of Architectural History and Theory at The Bartlett,
University College London where he is Reader in Architecture and Urban
Culture. A founding member of Strangely Familiar, he is co-editor of a
number of books, including Architecture and the Sites of History: Interpretations
of Buildings and Cities (1995), Strangely Familiar: Narratives of Architecture in
the City (1996), Gender Space Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction
(2000), The City Cultures Reader (2000), and InterSections: Architectural Histories
and Critical Theories (2000). He is currently writing a theorized history
of skateboarding as a critical urban practice.
M. Christine Boyer
M. Christine Boyer is a native of Manhattan, and now resides in the West
Village. She is Professor of Urbanism at the School of Architecture, Princeton
University, and has also taught at Harvard Graduate School, Columbia
University, Cooper Union Chanin School, and the Pratt Institute. She is the
author of Cybercities: Visual Perception in the Age of Electronic Communication
(1996), The City of Collective Memory (1994), Dreaming the Rational City
(1983), and Manhattan Manners: Architecture and Style, 1850–1890 (1985).
Her forthcoming book is The City Plans of Modernism.
Iain Chambers
Iain Chambers teaches at the Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples, and
has worked on metropolitan cultures, in particular on urban cultural practices
and the centrality of popular music as a palimpsest of memories and
identities. His studies draw on interdisciplinary critical approaches, and his
recent work has been pursued within the context of the increasing globalization
of economic and cultural relations and emerging cultures of hybridity.
He is author of Migrancy, Culture, Identity (1994), Border Dialogues:
Journeys in Postmodernity (1990), and Popular Culture. The Metropolitan Experience
(1986), and is co-editor, with Lidia Curti, of The Post-Colonial Question:
Commons Skies, Divided Horizons (1996).
Jonathan Charley
Jonathan Charley lives in Glasgow, teaches architecture at the University of
Strathclyde, and writes.