Book review: About Star Architecture. Reflecting on Cities in Europe

Bagnasco A Le Gales P (eds) (2000) Cities in Contemporary Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Gonzales S (2011) Bilbao and Barcelona ‘in motion’. How urban regeneration ‘models’ travel and mutate in the global flows of policy tourism. Urban Studies 48(7): 1397–1418.

Gravari-Barbas M Renard-Delautre C (2015) Starchitecture(s). Figures d’architectes et espace urbain / Celebrity Architects and Urban Space. Paris: L’Harmattan.

Harvey D (1989) From managerialism to entrepreneurialism: The transformation in urban governance in late capitalism. Geografiska Annaler B 71(1): 3–17.

Jensen OB (2007) Culture stories: Understanding cultural urban branding. Planning Theory 6(3): 211–236.

Kaika M (2010) Architecture and crisis: Re-inventing the icon, re-imag(in)ing London and re-branding the city. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 35(4): 453–474.

Ponzini D Nastasi M (2016) Starchitecture: Scenes, Actors and Spectacles in Contemporary Cities. New York: Monacelli.

Sklair L (2006) Iconic architecture and capitalist globalization. City 10(1): 21–47.

Sklair L (2017) The Icon Project: Architecture, Cities and Capitalist Globalization. New York: Oxford University Press.