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Sensing cities : regenerating public life in Barcelona and Manchester /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Degen, Monica Montserrat
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Series:Routledge studies in human geography.
Subjects:
Urban renewal > Spain > Barcelona.
Sociology, Urban > Spain > Barcelona.
Urban renewal > England > Manchester.
Sociology, Urban > England > Manchester.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : sensing cities
  • Urban redevelopment, the senses and public life
  • Researching the senses
  • Overview of the book
  • Public life in late modernity
  • Space as social process
  • Sensing publicness
  • A new urban aesthetic
  • Commercial privatization and fortification of urban space
  • Sensing the city
  • Towards a 'socially embedded aesthetics'
  • The city of senses
  • Place gestures
  • Methodological discussion : rhythmanalysis
  • Sensuous powers
  • Flows of power
  • Control through pleasure
  • Domination and resistance
  • Sensuous planning ideologies
  • Castlefield and El Raval
  • A sensuous history
  • Castlefield : from industrial revolution to inner city cool
  • El Raval : from 'Barrio Chino' to cultural quarter
  • Planning regeneration
  • The spatialization of regeneration
  • Formalizing public life in Castlefield
  • Diluting public life in El Raval
  • Perceptions from 'down below'
  • Castlefield : exclusive public spaces
  • El Raval: invisible public spaces
  • Castlefield: promoting selective histories
  • El Raval : disrupting social life
  • Living in regenerated worlds
  • Rhythms of everyday life
  • Sensuous mappings
  • Castlefield's 'taste wars'
  • El Raval's 'place wars'
  • Conclusion : regenerating public life?
  • Bibliography.