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Encountering urban places : visual and material performances in the city /

The aesthetics of urban life are 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, t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Frers, Lars, Meier, Lars
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2007.
Colección:Re-materialising cultural geography.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Encountering urban places : 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 : encountering space and materiality / Lars Frers
  • Eye-catchers. Staging the sociosexual : the example of prostitution / Martina Löw
  • Urban spaces re-defined in daily practices : 'Minibar', Ankara / Deniz Altay
  • An uncommon common space / Zeuler R.M.A. Lima and Vera M. Pallamin
  • Seeing succession in Little and Big Italy : encountering ethnic vernacular landscapes / Jerome Krase
  • Working in the skyline : images and everyday action / Lars Meier
  • Simulation or hospitality : beyond the crisis of representation in Nowa Huta / Łukasz Stanek
  • Sensing place : mobile and wireless technologies in urban space / Katharine S. Willis
  • Working with the visual / Lars Frers and Lars Meier.