The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space

Contributors
Sally Munt
Sally Munt is Reader in Media and Communication Studies at the University
of Brighton. She is the author of Heroic Desire: Lesbian Identity and Cultural
Space (1998), the editor of Butch/Femme: Inside Lesbian Gender (1997),
and co-editor with Andy Medhurst of Lesbian and Gay Studies: A Critical Introduction
(1997).
Steve Pile
Steve Pile is a lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University.
He has published work relating to identity, politics, and geography. He
is the author of The Body and the City: Psychoanalysis, Space, and Subjectivity
(1996), and co-editor with Michael Keith of Geographies of Resistance (1997)
and with Heidi J. Nast of Places through the Body (1998).
Alicia Pivaro
A founding member of Strangely Familiar, Alicia Pivaro is co-editor of
Strangely Familiar: Narratives of Architecture in the City (1996). After training
as an architect, with a master’s in the History of Modern Architecture, she
worked as a creative producer, writer, and tutor in the fields of architecture
and design. Her projects include “Tasty—Good Enough to Eat,” “Home—
Architects’ Designs for Living,” “Project 2045,” and “Y2K+, Cultural
Questions for the 21st Century.” Former Head of Architecture at the Arts
Council of England, where she initiated Architecture Week, she is now Director
of the RIBA Architecture Gallery.
Jane Rendell
Jane Rendell is Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Nottingham,
and author of The Pursuit of Pleasure (2000). A founding member of
Strangely Familiar, she is co-editor of Strangely Familiar: Narratives of Architecture
in the City (1995), Gender Space Architecture: An Interdisciplinary Introduction
(2000) and InterSections: Architectural Histories and Critical Theories
(2000).
Edward W. Soja
Edward W. Soja, formerly Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture
and Urban Planning at UCLA, is currently a Professor in the Department
of Urban Planning. From his early research on problems of