Sarah Chaplin is Deputy Director of the Urban Renaissance Institute and Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Greenwich, London.

Alexandra Stara is Director of Graduate History & Theory and Principal Lecturer at the School of Architecture & Landscape, University of Kingston, UK.

Introduction Part 1: City Tours and Urban Reveries 1. Remembering Dublin in Ulysses 2. Choose (What) to Learn from Las Vegas, LA, London, Rome, Lagos...? 3. Curated Desires: Film, Photography and the Visual Transformation of Urban Space in Surrealism 4. Moving City: Curating Architecture on Site 5. Awaiting the Voice-Over: The Oresund Film Commission Location Database and the Mediatization of Architectural Landscape 6. Curating Contemporary Architecture: Touring the Bilbao Guggenheim and Seattle Central Library Part 2: Rethinking Curatorship, Rethinking Architecture 7. Cura 8. Caring for Dead Architecture 9. Exhibiting Architecture: The Installation as Laboratory for Emerging Architecture 10. From Flash Art to Flash Mob: Art in the Age of Spectacularisation 11. Reading into the Mysteries of Artemis Ephesia Part 3: Re-interpreting Public Space and Cultural Heritage 12. Curating the Social, Curating the Architectural 13. Expanding the Public Realm Through Curated Collaborative Action: The Echigo Tsumari Abandoned House Project 14. Curating the Nation: Turkish Pavilions in World Expositions 15. After Branding - A Lively Downtown? 16. The Necessity of Distance: Setting the Position for Critical Spatial Practice 17. Urban Fictions with the Office for Subversive Architecture. Afterword