Urban space and representation / Maria Balshaw and Liam Kennedy -- City sights / Douglas Tallack -- A tale of two cities / Richard Ings -- From the sofa to the crime scene / Pascal Pinck -- Fear and sympathy / Al Deakin -- Elegies to Harlem / Maria Balshaw -- The Brooklyn Cigar Co. as dialogic public sphere / Peter Brooker -- Paranoid spatiality / Liam Kennedy -- The film de banlieue / Myrto Konstantarakos -- 'Whose fucking park? / Stephen Shapiro -- Metropolis of the midlands / Gargi Bhattacharyya -- Singapore soil / John Phillips.