Introduction: celebrating the city -- An author's perspective: finding your place in the landscape -- Storifying the city: examining representations of urban areas in Sherri L. Smith's Orleans -- Genre and gentrification in the young adult novel -- Tears on concrete: shaping youth identities in the shadows of gentrification in Daniel JoseĢ Older's Shadowshaper -- An author's perspective: where I can plant the seeds -- "Somewhere away from the lights of the city": unsettling the normative frameworks of urban space in queer young adult literature -- Anti-urbanism in Willa Cather's mythical west -- The poetic city: the importance of the city setting in The Poet X -- An author's perspective: an undocumented girl finds a sense of belonging -- The urban and the urbane: girls and New York City in Cecily von Ziegesar's Gossip Girl and Rita Williams-Garcia's Jumped -- The sensual city: Jason Reynolds's When I was the Greatest and The Boy in the Black Suit -- An author's perspective: music lives in the city -- Visions of the city: examining urban landscapes in Shaun Tan's visual narratives.
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