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
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, to advertising and to the way people respond to the place. Exploring the encounter with the aesthetics, images and material design of urban life, this book offers analytic insights into contemporary cities. It shows how photography, maps and videos play a crucial role in bringing aesthetic dimensions into urban studies. This transdisciplinary approach draws on the full spectrum of the visual representation to tie the encounter with the realm of the visual directly and explicitly into the exploration of urban space
