Encountering urban places : visual and material performances in the city / / edited by Lars Frers and Lars Meier
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| Titolo: |
Encountering urban places : visual and material performances in the city / / edited by Lars Frers and Lars Meier
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| Pubblicazione: | Aldershot, England ; ; Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, c2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (207 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 307.76 |
| Soggetto topico: | Aesthetics |
| Cities and towns - Study and teaching | |
| Group identity | |
| Public spaces - Social aspects | |
| Spatial behavior | |
| Altri autori: |
FrersLars
MeierLars
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Encountering Urban Places - Visual and Material Performances in the City; Chapter 2 Urban Aesthetics and the Excess of Fact; Chapter 3 Perception, Aesthetics, and Envelopment - Encountering Space and Materiality; Chapter 4 Eye-Catchers. Staging the Sociosexual - The Example of Prostitution; Chapter 5 Urban Spaces Re-Defined in Daily Practices - 'Minibar', Ankara; Chapter 6 An Uncommon Common Space; Chapter 7 Seeing Succession in Little and Big Italy - Encountering Ethnic Vernacular Landscapes |
| Chapter 8 Working in the Skyline - Images and Everyday ActionChapter 9 Simulation or Hospitality - Beyond the Crisis of Representaion in Nowa Huta; Chapter 10 Sensing Place - Mobile and Wireless Technologies in Urban Space; Chapter 11 Working with the Visual; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The aesthetics of urban life offer a curious quality, one that is both highly visible and hidden, both openly influencing and subtly imprinting. Exploring the encounter with the aesthetics, images and material design of urban life, this book offers analytic insights into contemporary urban space. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Encountering urban places |
| ISBN: | 1-315-57948-0 |
| 1-317-14389-2 | |
| 1-317-14388-4 | |
| 1-281-76618-6 | |
| 9786611766184 | |
| 0-7546-9336-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910827585003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Re-materialising cultural geography.