Encountering Urban Places

Visual and Material Performances in the City
Neuauflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-7546-4929-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Re-Materialising Cultural Geography

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frers, Lars

Meier, Lars

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1 Encountering Urban Places – Visual and Material Performances in the City, LarsFrers, LarsMeier; Chapter 2 Urban Aesthetics and the Excess of Fact, HelenLiggett; Chapter 3 Perception, Aesthetics, and Envelopment – Encountering Space and Materiality, LarsFrers; Chapter 4 Eye-Catchers. Staging the Sociosexual – The Example of Prostitution, MartinaLöw; Chapter 5, DenizAltay; Chapter 6 An Uncommon Common Space, Zeuler R.M.A.Lima, Vera M.Pallamin; Chapter 7 Seeing Succession in Little and Big Italy – Encountering Ethnic Vernacular Landscapes, JeromeKrase; Chapter 8 Working in the Skyline – Images and Everyday Action, LarsMeier; Chapter 9 Simulation or Hospitality – Beyond the Crisis of Representation in Nowa Huta, ?ukaszStanek; Chapter 10 Sensing Place – Mobile and Wireless Technologies in Urban Space, Katharine S.Willis; Chapter 11 Working with the Visual, LarsFrers, LarsMeier;

Über Autor(innen)

Lars Frers is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Technology Darmstadt, Germany. Lars Meier is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Technology Darmstadt, Germany.