Art and the Global City brings together a host of academics (communication specialists, sociologists, historians and cultural theorists) who seek to expand the notion of a "communicative city" by looking at the role that art and public culture play in the rapidly expanding global landscape. Spanning four continents (North America, Europe/Eurasia, Asia, and Australia) and multiple cities (from Chicago to Singapore, Moscow, Seoul, and Melbourne), these case studies focus the readers attention to the evolution of art in public spaces and the rhetorical power of new artistic visions and conglomerations in the urban landscape.

James T. Andrews (Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 1994) is Distinguished University Professor of Modern Russian History at Iowa State University. He is the editor or author of five books, including an acclaimed two-volume cultural history of the Soviet space program titled Red Cosmos (2009) and Into the Cosmos (2011) respectively. His fellowships and awards include the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Margaret R. LaWare (Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1993) is Associate Professor of English and Speech Communication at Iowa State University where she has been Coordinator of the Ph.D. Program in Rhetoric and Professional Communication. The author of numerous articles in major journals such as College English and Women's Studies in Communication, she is currently completing a book titled Speaking to America's Women: Commencement Speeches, Women's Colleges, and Feminist Movements.