Encountering urban places : visual and material performances in the city
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Bibliographic Information
Encountering urban places : visual and material performances in the city
(Re-materialising cultural geography)
Ashgate, c2007
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Preface
- Encountering urban places a " visual and material performances in the city, Lars Frers and Lars Meier
- Urban aesthetics and the excess of fact, Helen Liggett
- Perception, aesthetics, and envelopment a " encountering space and materiality, Lars Frers
- Eye-catchers. Staging the sociosexual a " the example of prostitution, Martina LA w
- Urban spaces re-defined in daily practices a " 'minibar', Ankara, Deniz Altay
- An uncommon common space, Zeuler R.M.A. Lima and Vera M. Pallamin
- Seeing succession in little and big Italy a " encountering ethnic vernacular landscapes, Jerome Krase
- Working in the skyline a " images and everyday action, Lars Meier
- Simulation or hospitality a " beyond the crisis of representation in Nowa Huta, Lukasz Stanek
- Sensing place a " mobile and wireless technologies in urban space, Katharine S. Willis
- Working with the visual, Lars Frers and Lars Meier
- Index.
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