Visual Methods in Cultural Urban Studies

The emergence of cultural urban studies is in the 21st century a component of the global intellectual landscape. There are a few studies on cultural urban studies which reveal it as a new sub-discipline, but whilst it has a long tail, it also has a short body. In the historical perspective there are several studies on urban cultural studies in England and a few studies on cultural urban studies in Poland, but various emergences of this intellectual query can be seen from the beginning of the 20th century all over the world. Despite the inner differences, however, they transgress various disciplines which are interested in urban studies. Because of the ways cultural urban studies has developed, the distinctive differences are – firstly – the unavoidable articulations of theories of culture and – secondly – a question of methodology.