The New Urban Aesthetic
eBook - PDF

The New Urban Aesthetic

Digital Experiences of Urban Change

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The New Urban Aesthetic

Digital Experiences of Urban Change

About this book

Shortlisted for the Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award 2023 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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Yes, you can access The New Urban Aesthetic by Mónica Montserrat Degen,Gillian Rose in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Art & History of Contemporary Art. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9781350283510
eBook ISBN
9781350070844
Edition
1
Topic
Art
Subtopic
History of Contemporary Art

Table of contents

  1. Half Title
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Illustrations
  6. Preface and Acknowledgments
  7. Chapter 1: Introducing the New Urban Aesthetic
  8. Chapter 2: The New Urban Aesthetic: A Conceptual Framework
  9. Chapter 3: The Conceived Aesthetics of Urban Redevelopment: The Case of Msheireb Downtown, Qatar
  10. Chapter 4: The Perceived Aesthetics of Digital Urbanism: Feeling Digital Embodiment in Smart Milton Keynes
  11. Chapter 5: The Lived Aesthetics of Urban Social Media: Anticipating the Culture Mile’s Future
  12. Chapter 6: The New Urban Aesthetic and Its Power
  13. Chapter 7: Conclusion: The Differentiation and Potentialities of the New Urban Aesthetic
  14. References
  15. Index