Encountering Urban Places : Visual and Material Performances in the City.

By: Frers, LarsContributor(s): Meier, Lars | Boyle, Dr Mark | Mitchell, Professor Donald | Pinder, Dr DavidMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Re-materialising Cultural GeographyPublisher: Abingdon : Routledge, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (207 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780754693369Subject(s): Aesthetics | Cities and towns -- Study and teaching | Group identity | Public spaces -- Social aspects | Spatial behaviorGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Encountering Urban Places : Visual and Material Performances in the CityDDC classification: 307.76 LOC classification: HT109 -- .E53 2007ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Encountering Urban Places - Visual and Material Performances in the City -- Chapter 2 Urban Aesthetics and the Excess of Fact -- Chapter 3 Perception, Aesthetics, and Envelopment - Encountering Space and Materiality -- Chapter 4 Eye-Catchers. Staging the Sociosexual - The Example of Prostitution -- Chapter 5 Urban Spaces Re-Defined in Daily Practices - 'Minibar', Ankara -- Chapter 6 An Uncommon Common Space -- Chapter 7 Seeing Succession in Little and Big Italy - Encountering Ethnic Vernacular Landscapes -- Chapter 8 Working in the Skyline - Images and Everyday Action -- Chapter 9 Simulation or Hospitality - Beyond the Crisis of Representaion in Nowa Huta -- Chapter 10 Sensing Place - Mobile and Wireless Technologies in Urban Space -- Chapter 11 Working with the Visual -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
Summary: 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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Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Encountering Urban Places - Visual and Material Performances in the City -- Chapter 2 Urban Aesthetics and the Excess of Fact -- Chapter 3 Perception, Aesthetics, and Envelopment - Encountering Space and Materiality -- Chapter 4 Eye-Catchers. Staging the Sociosexual - The Example of Prostitution -- Chapter 5 Urban Spaces Re-Defined in Daily Practices - 'Minibar', Ankara -- Chapter 6 An Uncommon Common Space -- Chapter 7 Seeing Succession in Little and Big Italy - Encountering Ethnic Vernacular Landscapes -- Chapter 8 Working in the Skyline - Images and Everyday Action -- Chapter 9 Simulation or Hospitality - Beyond the Crisis of Representaion in Nowa Huta -- Chapter 10 Sensing Place - Mobile and Wireless Technologies in Urban Space -- Chapter 11 Working with the Visual -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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