1st Edition
Sensing Cities Regenerating Public Life in Barcelona and Manchester
By Monica Montserrat Degen
Copyright 2008
240 Pages
52 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
52 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
52 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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As cities globally re-design their urban landscapes, they produce a different urban aesthetic and create new experiential milieus. Urban regeneration processes generate radical physical, social and cultural changes in neighbourhoods that demand new conceptual frameworks to address their impact upon daily urban life.
Sensing Cities investigates the reconfiguration of contemporary public space... Read more
Part One 1. Introduction: Sensing Cities 2. Public Life in Late Modernity 3. Sensing the City 4. Sensuous Powers Part Two 5. Castlefield and El Raval 6. Planning Regeneration 7. Perceptions from ‘Down Below’ 8. Living in Regenerated Worlds 9. Conclusion: Regenerating Public Life? Bibliography
Biography
Mónica Degen is a Lecturer in Sociology at Brunel University where she teaches and researches urban culture, the senses, spatiality and cultural sociology. She has published in Environment and Planning A, The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, and Space and Culture.
