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Author Virmani, Arundhati

Title Aesthetic Perceptions of Urban Environments
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (241 p.)
Series Interventions Ser
Interventions Ser
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Notes On Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Notes -- References -- Part I Aesthetic Perceptions of Urban Environments: A Long-Term Perspective -- 1 Pulchritudo Civitatis: Aesthetic Gazes On Cities in Communal Italy (12th-14th Century) -- Notes -- References -- 2 London, Paris, Rome ...: Travellers' Experiences of Early Modern European Cities -- The Tyranny of the Cityscape -- Soundscapes, Smellscapes, Sensescapes
The Emergence of an Ordinary Aesthetics of the Sensitive -- Notes -- References -- 3 Cities Destroyed, Cities Rebuilt: Sightseeing After a Cataclysm (London, 1666 -- Lisbon, 1755) -- 'Though My Shock'd Soul Recoils, My Tongue Shall Tell' -- London, 1666 -- Lisbon, 1755 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 The Vertical City in Science Fiction: Urban Utopia Or Social Nightmare? -- The Horrible Beauty of the Skyscrapers -- The Dark Side of Verticality -- The Dialectic of the Top and the Bottom -- When Reality Goes Beyond Science Fiction -- Conclusion: Fragile Vertical Beauties -- Note
Obtrusive Advertisements, Streetscapes and Traffic Safety -- Neon Lights and the Invention of Nightlife in 1930s Shanghai -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- References -- 7 A Plea for Do(ing) the Right Thing: An Ordinary Dog Day in Bed-Stuy -- A Portrait of Bedford-Stuyvesant -- Sounds in the Neighbourhood -- Staging a Blistering Hot Day: Central Characters -- Ambient Determinism -- Forms of Individual Self-Expression -- Notes -- References -- Film -- 8 Experiencing the Urban Through the Prism of Fiction and Cinema in Postcolonial India -- City as Visual Aesthetics: the Newcomer's Gaze
Coping With Urban Spaces -- Urban Inequalities and Social Practices -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Films -- Part III Aesthetic Inequalities, a Challenge for Urban Grammar -- 9 From Aesthetic Assets to Sensitive Public Policies: For an Ethic of the Affective City -- An Aesthetic Turning Point in Urban Planning Knowledge and Practice -- From Aesthetic Capital to "Practical Poet": an Ethic of "The Peddling of Space" -- An Expansion of Bourdieu's Capital -- The Inhabitant Is a "Practical Poet" Who Profanes, Uses Cunning, and Ironizes -- Aesthetic Space Is the Product of a Peddling of Space
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Bibliography References -- Movie References -- Part II Urban Everyday Aesthetics as a Common Good -- 5 Whose River Is It Anyway?: River as Commons, River as Neighbour - the Yamuna in Delhi -- Riverside Imaginations -- Everyday Experiences and Alternate Imaginations -- Disconnecting Everyday Imaginations -- Marginal Lives, Alternate Imaginations and Sustainable Futures -- Urban Riverscapes - Without Residents? Without Flow? -- Notes -- References -- 6 Negotiating Advertising Aesthetics in Early Twentieth-Century Shanghai -- Billboards and the Rising Sense of Landscape
Notes Sensitive Planning
Subject Urbanization -- Social aspects
Urban ecology (Sociology)
urban environments.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urbanization -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781000464542
1000464547