Im Zentrum dieses Buches stehen Geschichte, Materialität, Mikrolandschaften und Atmosphären der Partnerstädte Innsbruck und New Orleans. Dabei stützen sich die Autorinnen und Autoren auf das Konzept der "multiplen Landschaften".

ContentsIntroductionCities and Landscapes: Comparing Innsbruck and New Orleans 11Christina Antenhofer, Robert L. DupontI Multiple LandscapesPoetic Places and Multiple Landscapes: Exploring Urban Topographies 35Christina Antenhofer, Ulrich LeitnerUniversity Cities: A Strategic Resource of Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Europe 61Gastone AveInteraction between Cities and Universities: Innsbruck Univer©ity 83Tilmann D. Märk, Thomas BaumgartnerHuman Bodies and the City: Art as a Medium to Explore Urban Landscapes 97Ulrich LeitnerII Historical ReadingsThe Mysteries of New Orleans: Culture Formation and the Layering of History 107Berndt OstendorfBetween Land and Water 121Robert L. DupontAn Architectural Geography of New Orleans' French Quarter 133Richard CampanellaInnsbruck as an Historical City 167Julia Hörmann-Thurn und TaxisIII Material RealitiesObscuring Risk: The Levee Landscape of New Orleans 187Craig E. ColtenHigher Ground: Land Loss, Infrastructured Landscapes, and Human Habitats 217Stefano de Martino, Gerald HaselwanterInnsbruck as Olympic City 237Arnold Klotz, Wolfgang MeixnerBicycling in Urban Landscape: Exploring Discursive, Cultural and Spatial Dynamics 251Philipp K. WegererIV AtmospheresThe (Felt) Body of the City: Feeling Urban Spaces 277Jürgen HasseMatchpoint Innsbruck 295Bart LootsmaCapital of the Alps: Mountains as Innsbruck's Landscape of Taste 325Simone EggerNot Commodified Enough: An Anthropological Case Study about Music in New Orleans 347Bernhard BauerV Micro-LandscapesRestructuring Public Landscapes in Gentrifying New Orleans 371Renia EhrenfeuchtUltra Soccer Fans and the Cultural Logic of Symbolic Gift Exchange: Ethnographic Encounters in the Micro-Landscape of Soccer Fans 391Jochen BonzFrom the Bayou to the Table: The Croatian Community of Southeastern Louisiana and their Role in Louisiana'sSeafood Industry 401Reneé Bourgogneschaug-Shifting Perspectives on Linguistic Landscapes: Implications for Language Learners 417Dominik Unterthiner, Alexander Topf, Stephanie BaurVI Hidden SidesEssential but Invisible: Migration as Part of Urban and General History 441Dirk RupnowSaving the City from Sex Deviates: Preservationists, Homosexuals and Reformers in the French Quarter, ­1950-1962 459Alecia P. LongLandscapes of Psychiatry in the Tyrol in the Nineteenth Century with a Comparative View of Louisiana 471Maria HeideggerDangerous Spaces-Endangered Youth: Considering Urban Space as a Relevant Dimension in Researching the History of Residential Care in Post-War Innsbruck 495Flavia GuerriniNotes on Authors 513Index 515