An edition of Sensing Cities (2008)

Sensing cities

regenerating public life in Barcelona and Manchester

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Monica Montserrat Degen
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An edition of Sensing Cities (2008)

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Routledge
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Cover of: Sensing Cities
Sensing Cities: Regenerating Public Life in Barcelona and Manchester
2015, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Sensing cities
Cover of: Sensing Cities
Sensing Cities: Regenerating Public Life in Barcelona and Manchester
2008, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Sensing Cities
Sensing Cities: Urban Aesthetics in a Global Age
October 20, 2008, Routledge
Paperback in English - 1 edition
Cover of: Sensing Cities
Sensing Cities: Regenerating Public Life in Barcelona and Manchester
2008, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Sensing Cities
Sensing Cities: Regenerating Public Life in Barcelona and Manchester
2008, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Sensing Cities
Sensing Cities: Urban Aesthetics in a Global Age (Routledge Studies in Human Geography)
July 30, 2008, Routledge
Hardcover in English - 1 edition
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Table of Contents

Introduction: sensing cities
Urban redevelopment, the senses and public life
Researching the senses
Overview of the book
Public life in late modernity
Space as social process
Sensing publicness
A new urban aesthetic
Commercial privatisation and fortification of urban space
Sensing the city
Towards a "socially embedded aesthetics"
The city of senses
Place gestures
Methodological discussion: rhythmanalysis
Sensuous powers
Flows of power
Control through pleasure
Domination and resistance
Sensuous planning ideologies
Castlefield and El Raval
A sensuous history
Castlefield: from industrial revolution to inner city cool
El Raval: from "Barrio Chino" to cultural quarter
Planning regeneration
The spatialization of regeneration
Formalising public life in Castlefield
Diluting public life in El Raval
Perceptions from "down below"
Castlefield: exclusive public spaces
El Raval: invisible public spaces
Castlefield: promoting selective histories
El Raval: disrupting social life
Living in regenerated worlds
Rhythms of everyday life
Sensuous mappings
Castlefield's "taste wars"
El Raval's "place wars"
Conclusion: regenerating public life?
Bibliography.

Edition Notes

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, New York

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Dewey Decimal Class
307.760946/72
Library of Congress
HT178.S62 B3724 2008

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Pagination
p. cm.

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Open Library
OL24058693M
ISBN 13
9780415397995, 9780203895511
LCCN
2007049621

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