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The aesthetics of urban life offer a curious quality, one that is
both highly visible and hidden, both openly influencing and subtly
imprinting. These aesthetics participate in the production of
places; to the way they are built, to their resisting materiality,
to their image in people's minds, to advertising and to the way
people respond to the place. Exploring the encounter with the
aesthetics, images and material design of urban life, this book
offers analytic insights into contemporary cities. It shows how
photography, maps and videos play a crucial role in bringing
aesthetic dimensions into urban studies. This transdisciplinary
approach draws on the full spectrum of the visual representation to
tie the encounter with the realm of the visual directly and
explicitly into the exploration of urban space.
The aesthetics of urban life offer a curious quality, one that is
both highly visible and hidden, both openly influencing and subtly
imprinting. These aesthetics participate in the production of
places; to the way they are built, to their resisting materiality,
to their image in people's minds, to advertising and to the way
people respond to the place. Exploring the encounter with the
aesthetics, images and material design of urban life, this book
offers analytic insights into contemporary cities. It shows how
photography, maps and videos play a crucial role in bringing
aesthetic dimensions into urban studies. This transdisciplinary
approach draws on the full spectrum of the visual representation to
tie the encounter with the realm of the visual directly and
explicitly into the exploration of urban space.
Cities have always been arenas of social and symbolic conflict. As
places of encounter between different classes, ethnic groups, and
lifestyles, cities play the role of powerful integrators; yet on
the other hand urban contexts are the ideal setting for
marginalization and violence. The struggle over control of urban
spaces is an ambivalent mode of sociation: while producing
themselves, groups produce exclusive spaces and then, in turn, use
the boundaries they have created to define themselves. This volume
presents major urban conflicts and analyzes modes of negotiation
against the theoretical background of postcolonialism.
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