Cinema and the City in the Age of Planetary Urbanization
Anne Romme & Emil Hvelplund Kristiansen
De Gruyter (forthcoming)
A book-length examination of how filmic methods can inform architectural and urban analysis in the context of planetary urbanization. Develops the concept of cinematic cartography as an alternative to top-down mapping paradigms rooted in colonial cartographic traditions.
Book Chapter
A Cinematic Cartography: Teaching Architecture through an Eye-Level Perspective
Anne Romme & Emil Hvelplund Kristiansen
In: Cinema and the City in the Age of Planetary Urbanization, De Gruyter
Outlines the pedagogical framework of cinematic cartography as taught in the Taking Place program. From the opening scene of Wings of Desire to student films in Kiruna, Cluj-Napoca, and Athens — the chapter articulates a method that positions filmmaking as both a tool for spatial analysis and an ethical practice of "speaking nearby."
The foundational monograph on cinematic cartography as an academic field. Examines how film maps space through scale, analysis, and topographic representation — a key reference for situating our work within the broader discourse.
Cinematic Starchitecture
Various editors
Routledge, 2025
An edited collection on architectural iconicity in cinema. Chapters on London's skyline, Hong Kong starchitecture, Brutalism in British film, and Guggenheim museums on screen — engaging the same conversation as our planetary cinema work.
Researching Otherwise: Pluriversal Methodologies for Landscape and Urban Studies
Nitin Bathla (ed.)
gta Verlag, 2024
A collection of pluriversal approaches to landscape and urban research. Bathla's decolonial framing connects directly to our critique of top-down mapping and search for alternative methodologies.
The Architecture of Image: Existential Space in Cinema
Juhani Pallasmaa
Rakennustieto, 2001
Pallasmaa argues that film, through its tactile and temporal qualities, mirrors the way we inhabit the world — not only through sight, but through a synthesis of sound, movement, and touch. A central theoretical reference for our understanding of film as embodied spatial experience.
References
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Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space. Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.
Norberg-Schulz, Christian. Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture. New York: Rizzoli, 1980.
Trinh T. Minh-ha. "Speaking Nearby." In Visualizing Theory: Selected Essays from V.A.R., 1990–1994, edited by Lucien Taylor. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Leavy, Patricia. Method Meets Art: Arts-Based Research Practice. New York: Guilford Press, 2020.