Encountering Urban Places
eBook - ePub

Encountering Urban Places

Visual and Material Performances in the City

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Encountering Urban Places

Visual and Material Performances in the City

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Figures
  6. List of Contributors
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Chapter 1 Encountering Urban Places – Visual and Material Performances in the City
  10. Chapter 2 Urban Aesthetics and the Excess of Fact
  11. Chapter 3 Perception, Aesthetics, and Envelopment – Encountering Space and Materiality
  12. Chapter 4 Eye-Catchers. Staging the Sociosexual – The Example of Prostitution
  13. Chapter 5 Urban Spaces Re-Defined in Daily Practices – ‘Minibar’, Ankara
  14. Chapter 6 An Uncommon Common Space
  15. Chapter 7 Seeing Succession in Little and Big Italy – Encountering Ethnic Vernacular Landscapes
  16. Chapter 8 Working in the Skyline – Images and Everyday Action
  17. Chapter 9 Simulation or Hospitality – Beyond the Crisis of Representaion in Nowa Huta
  18. Chapter 10 Sensing Place – Mobile and Wireless Technologies in Urban Space
  19. Chapter 11 Working with the Visual
  20. Index