Passeio

“Killing Sydney: The Fight for a City’s Soul (2021)” by Elizabeth Farrelly

Abstract: “Columnist Elizabeth Farrelly brings her unique perspective as architectural writer and former city councillor to a burning question for our how will we live […]

Elizabeth Farrelly

Pan McMillan Australia

2021

“The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods: Renaissance and Resurgence (2021)” by Alex Bitterman & Daniel Baldwin Hess

Abstract: “This open access book examines the significance of gay neighborhoods (or ‘gayborhoods’) from critical periods of formation during the gay liberation and freedom movements […]

Alex Bitterman & Daniel Baldwin Hess

2021

“Filhos do Meio (2025)” [Middle Child] by Mano a Mano

Abstract: “The book ‘Filhos do Meio – Hiphop à margem’ brings together a set of stories, interviews and images representing the origins and development of […]

Mano a Mano

2025

“Antropología de lo urbano: Raíces y proyecciones de la ciudad como objeto de estudio (2023)” [Anthropology of the Urban: Roots and Projections of the City as an Object of Study] by Ariel Gravano

Abstract: “This book approaches a broad and deep understanding of the urban from an anthropological perspective, prioritizing the voice of the actors who daily build […]

2023

“Planning for a City of Culture: Creative Urbanism in Toronto and New York (2017)” by Shoshanah Goldberg-Miller

Abstract: “Planning for a City of Culture gives us a new way to understand how cities use arts and culture in planning, fostering livable communities and […]

Shoshanah Goldberg-Miller

Routledge | Taylor & Francis

2017

“Rainhas da noite: As travestis que tinham São Paulo a seus pés (2022)” [Queens of the night: The transvestites who had São Paulo at their feet] by Chico Felitti

Synopsis: “Between the 1970s and 2010s, Jacqueline Welch, Andréa de Mayo and Cristiane Jordan ruled São Paulo’s city center. Three T people who went through […]

Chico Felitti

Companhia das Letras

2022

“A Philosophy of Walking (2008)” by Frédéric Gros

By walking, you escape from the very idea of identity, the temptation to be someone, to have a name and a history … The freedom […]

Fréderic Gros

2008

“The Grind (2025)” by Steve Madden

Abstract: “The photographs in The Grind by Steve Madden show the strange beauty of anonymous commuters behind the misty windows of the London bus network. The images […]

Steve Madden

Gost Books

2025

“The New Urban Aesthetic: Digital Experiences of Urban Change (2022)” by Mónica Montserrat Degen & Gillian Rose

Abstract: “The New Urban Aesthetic explores how cities worldwide are being transformed and reconfigured by the twin forces of digital technologies and ‘urban branding’ in the […]

Mónica Montserrat Degen & Gillian Rose

Bloomsbury

2022

“Seeing the City Digitally: Processing Urban Space and Time (2022)” by Gillian Rose (Ed.)

Abstract: “This book explores what’s happening to ways of seeing urban spaces in the contemporary moment, when so many of the technologies through which cities […]

Gillian Rose

2022

“The Making of Grand Paris: Metropolitan Urbanism in the Twenty-First Century (2016)” by Theresa Enright

Abstract: “A critical examination of metropolitan planning in Paris—the “Grand Paris” initiative—and the building of today’s networked global city. In 2007 the French government announced the […]

Theresa Enright

MIT Press

2016

“Creativity in Tokyo: Revitalizing a Mature City (2020)” by Matjaz Ursic & Heide Imai

Abstract: “This book focuses on overlooked contextual factors that constitute the urban creative climate or innovative urban milieu in contemporary cities. Filled with reflections based […]

Matjaz Ursic & Heide Imai

Springer Nature

2020

“Latino Mural Cityscapes: A Reflection on Public Art, History, and Community in Chicago after World War II (2011)” by Marc Rodríguez

Abstract: “Chicago is a city known for its longstanding public mural tradition as well as its community murals movement based in the African-American, Mexican-American, and […]

Marc Rodríguez

Martin Butler, Jens Martin Gurr & Olaf Kaltmeier

2011

“Producing Local Color: Art Networks in Ethnic Chicago (2010)” by Diane Grams

Abstract: “In big cities, major museums and elite galleries tend to dominate our idea of the art world. But beyond the cultural core ruled by […]

Diane Grams

University of Chicago Press

2010

“Antropologia urbana: cultura e sociedade no Brasil e em Portugal” [Urban anthropology: culture and society in Brazil and in Portugal] by Gilberto Velho (org.)

Synopsis: “Analyzing everything from the social and urban evolution of Copacabana to the world of fado and rap in Portugal, this volume is the result […]

Gilberto Velho et. al.

Gilberto Velho

1999

“Above sea: Contemporary art, urban culture, and the fashioning of global Shanghai” by Jenny Lin

Synopsis: “Shanghai, long known as mainland China’s most cosmopolitan city, is today a global cultural capital. This book offers the first in-depth examination of contemporary […]

Jenny Lin

Manchester University Press

2019

“Communicating Human and Non-Human Otherness” by Helena Pires, Zara Pinto-Coelho & Luísa Magalhães (Eds.)

Edited by Passeio’s coordinators, Helena Pires and Zara Pinto-Coelho (CECS – Communication and Society Research Centre/University of Minho), alongside Luísa Magalhães (CEFH – Centre for […]

Helena Pires, Zara Pinto-Coelho & Luísa Magalhães

2024

“Artivism as a Form of Urban Translation: An Indisciplinary Hypothesis” by Myriam Suchet & Sarah Mekdjian

Abstract: “Myriam Suchet and Sarah Mekdjian introduce practices of “artivism” as a way of challenging received ideas about the city and of revealing the potential […]

Myriam Suchet & Sarah Mekdjian

Sherry Simon

2016

“Walking in the European City Quotidian Mobility and Urban Ethnography” by Timothy Shortell & Evrick Brown

ABSTRACT: “Sociologists have long noted that dynamism is an essential part of the urban way of life. However, walking as a significant social activity and […]

Timothy Shortell, Evrick Brown

Taylor & Francis

2014

“Machine Gun Voices: Favelas and Utopia In Brazilian Gangster Funk” by Paul Sneed

Abstract: “In the first book-length study of Brazilian gangster funk in English, the author draws on a unique combination of ethnography and community activism undertaken […]

“Introducing Urban Anthropology” by Rivke Jaffe e Anouk de Koning

Abstract: “This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the important field of urban anthropology. This is a critical area of study, as more than half […]

Rivke Jaffe, Anouk de Koning

Taylor & Francis

2022

Youth vernaculars in Paris and surroundings

In this book chapter, published in 2022, linguist Françoise Garnet, using an ethnographic and linguistic approach, analyzes emerging trends in the French language in communities […]

Françoise Garnet

Paul Kerswill, Heike Wiese, Taylor & Francis

2022

A Place to Call Home: Immigrant Exclusion and Urban Belonging in New York, Paris, and Barcelona

Summary: “As immigrants settle in new places, they are faced with endless uncertainties that prevent them from feeling that they belong. From language barriers, to […]

Ernesto Castañeda

Stanford University Press

2018

Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria

The book “Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria” by anthropologist Brian Larkin, released in 2008, starts from a ban on cinema […]

Brian Larkin

De Gruyter

2008

Sonic Signatures: Music, Migration and the City at Night

Abstract: “Sonic Signatures is an interdisciplinary collaboration of scholars and music-makers who come together to explore how music makes cities. More specifically, they argue that […]

Derek Pardue, Ailbhe Kenny

2023

Se liga no som: As transformações do rap no Brasil [Get a clue in the sound: The transformations of rap in Brazil]

Summary: “An explosive combination of beats, hard-hitting lyrics and innovative singing has seduced a legion of young people and bent even the most conservative critics. […]

Ricardo Teperman

Claro Enigma

2015

Braga – streets, squares and avenues

Sinopsis: “Another book by Rui Ferreira about the city of Braga, this time comprising a wide-ranging selection of articles on Braga’s urban spaces, published in […]

Rui Ferreira

Ponto Braguez

2024

“Doing Sensory Ethnography” by Sarah Pink

Summary: “This bold agenda-setting title continues to spearhead interdisciplinary, multisensory research into experience, knowledge and practice. Drawing on an explosion of new, cutting edge research […]

Sarah Pink

SAGE

2015

Notas do Quotidiano 3 [Daily Notes 3] – A pele da cidade [The skin of the city]

In the 3rd volume of the “Notas do Quotidiano” [Daily Notes] series, Passeio presents “A pele da cidade” [The skin of the city], a book […]

Pinto-Coelho, Zara. Pires, Helena. CECS - UMINHO.

2024

In the Sublimation of Time: Braga in the Photographic Archives of Carneiro and Arcelino

“Every time we are offered the chance to return to the past, we are sent on a journey through memory. Time works on us with […]

Arcelino de Azevedo; Manuel Carneiro

Documenta

2024

Mediateca

Sources of information and researchs

“Killing Sydney: The Fight for a City’s Soul (2021)” by Elizabeth Farrelly

“The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods: Renaissance and Resurgence (2021)” by Alex Bitterman & Daniel Baldwin Hess

“Filhos do Meio (2025)” [Middle Child] by Mano a Mano

“Antropología de lo urbano: Raíces y proyecciones de la ciudad como objeto de estudio (2023)” [Anthropology of the Urban: Roots and Projections of the City as an Object of Study] by Ariel Gravano

“Planning for a City of Culture: Creative Urbanism in Toronto and New York (2017)” by Shoshanah Goldberg-Miller

“Rainhas da noite: As travestis que tinham São Paulo a seus pés (2022)” [Queens of the night: The transvestites who had São Paulo at their feet] by Chico Felitti

“A Philosophy of Walking (2008)” by Frédéric Gros

“The Grind (2025)” by Steve Madden

“The New Urban Aesthetic: Digital Experiences of Urban Change (2022)” by Mónica Montserrat Degen & Gillian Rose

“Seeing the City Digitally: Processing Urban Space and Time (2022)” by Gillian Rose (Ed.)

“The Making of Grand Paris: Metropolitan Urbanism in the Twenty-First Century (2016)” by Theresa Enright

“Creativity in Tokyo: Revitalizing a Mature City (2020)” by Matjaz Ursic & Heide Imai

“Latino Mural Cityscapes: A Reflection on Public Art, History, and Community in Chicago after World War II (2011)” by Marc Rodríguez

“Producing Local Color: Art Networks in Ethnic Chicago (2010)” by Diane Grams

“Antropologia urbana: cultura e sociedade no Brasil e em Portugal” [Urban anthropology: culture and society in Brazil and in Portugal] by Gilberto Velho (org.)

“Above sea: Contemporary art, urban culture, and the fashioning of global Shanghai” by Jenny Lin

“Communicating Human and Non-Human Otherness” by Helena Pires, Zara Pinto-Coelho & Luísa Magalhães (Eds.)

“Artivism as a Form of Urban Translation: An Indisciplinary Hypothesis” by Myriam Suchet & Sarah Mekdjian

“Walking in the European City Quotidian Mobility and Urban Ethnography” by Timothy Shortell & Evrick Brown

“Machine Gun Voices: Favelas and Utopia In Brazilian Gangster Funk” by Paul Sneed

“Introducing Urban Anthropology” by Rivke Jaffe e Anouk de Koning

Youth vernaculars in Paris and surroundings

A Place to Call Home: Immigrant Exclusion and Urban Belonging in New York, Paris, and Barcelona

Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria

Sonic Signatures: Music, Migration and the City at Night

Se liga no som: As transformações do rap no Brasil [Get a clue in the sound: The transformations of rap in Brazil]

Braga – streets, squares and avenues

“Doing Sensory Ethnography” by Sarah Pink

Notas do Quotidiano 3 [Daily Notes 3] – A pele da cidade [The skin of the city]

In the Sublimation of Time: Braga in the Photographic Archives of Carneiro and Arcelino