1st Edition
City, Public Space, and Body The Embodied Experience of Urban Life
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Introduction
Mahsa Alami Fariman, Chien Lee, Ahmadreza Hakiminejad, Asma Mehan
SECTION I: GOVERNING BODIES
Chapter 1: Infrastructural Spaces: The (Anti)Public Space Manifesto
Asma Mehan, Krzysztof Nawratek, Ahmadreza Hakiminejad
Chapter 2: Public Bodies: Toward a Spatialized Understanding of Canadian Sex Work Legislation
Alexandra Pereira-Edwards
Chapter 3: Dangerous/Endangered Youth: The Governmentality of Nightlife in the Pandemic City
Fabio Bertoni
Chapter 4: (In)Visible Bodies: The Urban Life of Drug Users in Tehran’s Harandi Neighbourhood
Mahsa Alami Fariman
Chapter 5: Reimagining Proximity: Art Museums, Embodied Distance, and Aesthetic Experience in the Pandemic Era
Chien Lee
SECTION II: PERFORMING SPACE
Chapter 6: Feminist Performative Architectures: Making Space in and with Public Space
Helen Stratford
Chapter 7: Urban Bodies and Human Spaces: Questioning the Possibilities of Re-Signifying Neighbourhood Places through Performing Arts in Florence
Gloria Calderone
Chapter 8: Dancing Alone(s): Participatory Hierarchies of a Popular Culture Festival in a Global City
Laura Lamas-Abraira, Alba Colombo, Xavier Villanueva Capella
Chapter 9: (Un)Monuments of the Everyday: The Body of/at Work
Elena Cologni
Chapter 10: Essayistic Film Fragments: Instruments to Access the Performativity of Urban Space
Riccarda Cappeller
SECTION III: MAPPING URBAN LIFE
Chapter 11: Using Cartography to Study Mediations of Immigrants: Cases in London and São Paulo
Viviane Riegel
Chapter 12: Mapping the Urban Unconscious: Towards a Hybrid Application of Deep Mapping and Sentiment Analysis
Guilherme Giolo, Yorgos Paschos
Chapter 13: DJing as Worldizing: Sonic, Social, and Discursive Layers in the Urban Soundscape
Jake Williams
Chapter 14: Sensitive Tool with Gender Perspective of Vulnerable Landscapes: The Importance of Experience in Urban Landscape Planning and Modification — A Case Study of Alto Hospicio, Chile
Constanza Andrea Contreras Saffie
Index
Biography
Mahsa Alami Fariman is an urban researcher and educator with a background in architectural and urban studies. She is Lecturer in Just Urbanism, Societal Diversity, and Citizenship at the Bartlett University College London. Mahsa holds a PhD in Urban Sociology from Goldsmiths, University of London, and her research explores the open city, politics of space, the production of everyday urban life in the Middle East, and feminist urbanism.
Chien Lee is Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology at National Taiwan University. Previously, they held an assistant professorship at National Tsing Hua University. They are also a co-founder and researcher at Gallery Unfold in Kyoto. Lee's work, rooted in the sociology of art, explores art museums, the experience of arts, photographic mediation, and sensory ethnography. Their professional experience includes serving as a commissioned researcher for Theory, Culture & Society and a Visiting Research Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Ahmadreza Hakiminejad is a researcher and academic with a background in architectural, urban, and planning studies. He is Lecturer in Architecture based in the Leeds School of Arts at Leeds Beckett University. Ahmadreza’s research intersects critical urban studies, politics of space, architectural history and theory, and urban sociology.
Asma Mehan is Assistant Professor and Director of the Architectural Humanities and Urbanism Lab (AHU_Lab) at Texas Tech University. She is the author of The Affective Agency of Public Space: Social Inclusion and Community Cohesion (2024) and has contributed to over 50 peer-reviewed publications. Her research spans adaptive reuse, cultural heritage, urban resilience, and placemaking, bridging academia and practice to address contemporary urban challenges.
