The (P)redrawn, Near Past and Near Future City
This roundtable invites papers that explore the folds in time in which cities exist, either mapped, virtually drawn, or told to establish the cultural movements running beneath cities’ lives. What narratives engage these moments of close past or emerging shifts that impact the resilience of urban life? What small gestures, ephemera, and/or detritus best represent the city’s recent past or future? What elemental, unspoken aspects of urban space perhaps seem most threatened in the present moment? Versus the city obliterated by time, how does literary or visual storytelling engage, re-imagine, or frame the lived and enduring city? How do these more present reflections become windows on deeper time, human movement, and urban space?