Holgersson, H., C. Thorn, et al., Eds. (2010). (Re)searching Gothenburg: essays on a changing city. Gothenburg, Glanta.
(Re)searching Gothenburg is a multi-disciplinary edited volume devoted to researching one city, Gothenburg, from a variety of different angles and methods, including qualitative methods, visual methods, mapping and mixed methods. The essays in this book explore urban transformation in this former shipbuilding city. Researchers from a variety of disciplines were asked to write a text that did not require any prior knowledge of Gothenburg but asked for the native city dweller to see their city in a new light. The book includes 37 essays which discuss the city from a wide range of perspectives, including the gentrification of urban space, the city's colonial past, the mythical Gothenburg breath, gay meeting places, the fire disaster in Hisingen, Gothenburg riots, gender bending in public space, and critical photography, amongst many other topics. The book also engages with ideas of urban community, both within the city, and with the city as a whole. Although (Re)searching Gothenburg doesn't include a conventional map, its technique of exploring the city through a range of perspectives has some similarities with The Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas by Rebecca Solnit*.