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The contemporary urban experience is constituted by time -images that are related and arranged spatially and temporally in a non-linear way. Defined as descriptions that include actions (Deleuze 1989), these fictional and non-fictional time -images are organized by the urban inhabitant as narratives.
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McMillin, A. (2011). Urban Narratives of Time Images or the Drift of Alienation. In: Neuhaus, F. (eds) Studies in Temporal Urbanism. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0937-9_7
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