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Winner of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Excellence in Editing Award 2016  Urban studies has long understood the city as a ‘text’. What would it mean now to use performance to rethink that metaphor? Performance and the City queries the role theatre and performance play in urban policy, architecture, and civic history, while also exploring their important place in the memories created in the wake of urban trauma.