Sensing Cities : Regenerating Public Life in Barcelona and Manchester

by Degen,Monica

• ISBN13: 9780415398008
• ISBN10: 0415398002
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book identifies an important aspect in the analysis of urban change in the late twentieth century by highlighting the significance of the senses in the constitution of urban life.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
List of abbreviations	p. xiv
	p. 1
Introduction: Sensing cities	p. 3
Urban redevelopment, the senses and public life	p. 7
Researching the senses	p. 12
Overview of the book	p. 13
Public life in late modernity	p. 16
Space as social process	p. 17
Sensing publicness	p. 20
A new urban aesthetic	p. 25
Commercial privatization and fortification of urban space	p. 30
Conclusion	p. 34
Sensing the city	p. 35
Towards a 'socially embedded aesthetics'	p. 36
The city of senses	p. 41
Place gestures	p. 47
Methodological discussion: rhythmanalysis	p. 50
Conclusion	p. 52
Sensuous powers	p. 54
Flows of power	p. 55
Control through pleasure	p. 59
Domination and resistance	p. 62
Sensuous planning ideologies	p. 65
Conclusion	p. 72
	p. 75
Castlefield and El Raval	p. 77
A sensuous history	p. 78
Castlefield: from industrial revolution to inner city cool	p. 83
El Raval: from 'Barrio Chino' to cultural quarter	p. 93
Conclusion	p. 103
Planning regeneration	p. 105
The spatialization of regeneration	p. 106
Formalizing public life in Castlefield	p. 120
Diluting public life in El Raval	p. 125
Conclusion	p. 130
Perceptions from 'down below'	p. 132
Castlefield: exclusive public spaces	p. 133
El Raval: invisible public spaces	p. 139
Castlefield: promoting selective histories	p. 144
El Raval: disrupting social lives	p. 151
Conclusion	p. 161
Living in regenerated worlds	p. 162
Rhythms of everyday life	p. 163
Sensuous mappings	p. 173
Castlefield's 'taste wars'	p. 176
El Raval's 'place wars'	p. 179
Conclusion	p. 191
Conclusion: Regenerating public life?	p. 194
Notes	p. 201
Bibliography	p. 206
Index	p. 220
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