%0 Journal Article %T Urban knowledge through popular culture. Some reflections on everyday encounters with the melodramatic city %A David Beer %J lo Squaderno %D 2011 %I professionaldreamers %X I suspect that it is an obvious observation, but some time ago it occurred to me that a good deal of what I know about cities is a product of the cultural resources that I have consumed over the years. Various TV shows, musical works, films, books and the like have contributed to an accumulated general and sometimes more locally specific knowledge about cities. %K Urban Knowledges %K lo Squaderno No. 19 %U http://www.losquaderno.professionaldreamers.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/losquaderno19.pdf