Critical visual approaches to understand the complexities and contradictions of the city: Introduction to the Special Issue for Visual Studies.

Deverteuil, Geoffrey ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3036-9303 and Doucet, Brian 2024. Critical visual approaches to understand the complexities and contradictions of the city: Introduction to the Special Issue for Visual Studies. Visual Studies 39 (1-2) , pp. 114-117. 10.1080/1472586X.2023.2290943

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Abstract

Visual imagery has long been part of urban scholarship. Geographers, planners and urban studies researchers take a lot of pictures, and feature many in their lectures and publications. However, photographs are typically used as a descriptive illustrator of a place, process or phenomenon. Through this approach, visual imagery accompanies or supports an argument, analysis or conclusion derived from other methodologies. For example, if statistical analysis or interviews with policymakers lead a researcher to conclude that gentrification is happening in a certain neighbourhood, a nice picture of a refurbished old house, or a trendy café or microbrewery will provide a complementary visual example.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis Group
ISSN:	1472-586X
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	31 July 2024
Date of Acceptance:	1 March 2024
Last Modified:	01 Sep 2025 01:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/171052

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