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As cities globally re-design their urban landscapes, they produce a
different urban aesthetic and create new experiential milieus.
Urban regeneration processes generate radical physical, social and
cultural changes in neighbourhoods that demand new conceptual
frameworks to address their impact upon daily urban life. Sensing
Cities investigates the reconfiguration of contemporary public
space and life through the prism of the senses. The book explores
how the increased stylization of cityscapes requires an
understanding of public life as a spatial-sensuous encounter. Degen
examines how power relations in public spaces are embedded in,
exercised and resisted through the sensuous geography of place.
This sensory paradigm is then applied to compare two emblematic
regeneration projects, namely el Raval in Barcelona and Castlefield
in Manchester. By combining detailed ethnographic analysis and
interviews with those involved in planning regeneration processes
and those experiencing them, the book argues that a changing
sensuous landscape is crucial in redefining people's social
practices, attachments and experiences in places. Focusing on two
European cities at the forefront of urban design, Barcelona and
Manchester, Degen draws on sociology, geography, anthropology,
cultural and architectural studies to provide a critical account of
the politics of publicness in the entrepreneurial city. With
numerous photographs and maps this book stresses the ongoing,
embodied and active nature of regeneration as a lived social
process rather than merely a physical or economic exercise.
Ultimately, Sensing Cities examines how urban regeneration is made
effective through the organisation of sensory experience. This book
is essential reading for students and researchers of Architecture,
Urban Studies and Human Geography.
As cities globally re-design their urban landscapes, they produce a
different urban aesthetic and create new experiential milieus.
Urban regeneration processes generate radical physical, social and
cultural changes in neighbourhoods that demand new conceptual
frameworks to address their impact upon daily urban life. Sensing
Cities investigates the reconfiguration of contemporary public
space and life through the prism of the senses. The book explores
how the increased stylization of cityscapes requires an
understanding of public life as a spatial-sensuous encounter. Degen
examines how power relations in public spaces are embedded in,
exercised and resisted through the sensuous geography of place.
This sensory paradigm is then applied to compare two emblematic
regeneration projects, namely el Raval in Barcelona and Castlefield
in Manchester. By combining detailed ethnographic analysis and
interviews with those involved in planning regeneration processes
and those experiencing them, the book argues that a changing
sensuous landscape is crucial in redefining people's social
practices, attachments and experiences in places. Focusing on two
European cities at the forefront of urban design, Barcelona and
Manchester, Degen draws on sociology, geography, anthropology,
cultural and architectural studies to provide a critical account of
the politics of publicness in the entrepreneurial city. With
numerous photographs and maps this book stresses the ongoing,
embodied and active nature of regeneration as a lived social
process rather than merely a physical or economic exercise.
Ultimately, Sensing Cities examines how urban regeneration is made
effective through the organisation of sensory experience. This book
is essential reading for students and researchers of Architecture,
Urban Studies and Human Geography.
The New Urban Aesthetic explores how cities worldwide are being
transformed and reconfigured by the twin forces of digital
technologies and 'urban branding' in the name of global capitalism.
Both of these shifts entrain new sensory bodily experiences, and
this digitally-mediated reconfiguration of what cities feel like is
what this book terms the new urban aesthetic. Focussing on major
case-studies of urban change from London to Doha, the book explores
how different kinds of digital mediation play a central role in
urban transformation, from smart city phone apps, to social media
interactions, to computer-generated visualisations. The book
reveals how different versions of the new urban aesthetic organize
different sensory experiences of temporality and spatiality -
leading to a new understanding of the way we experience cities
today. The New Urban Aesthetic is essential reading for researchers
and students in urban studies, architecture, digital studies,
sociology, and human geography.
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