Mónica Montserrat Degen, Gillian Rose

The New Urban Aesthetic (eBook, PDF)

Digital Experiences of Urban Change

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Shortlisted for the Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award 2023

The New Urban Aesthetic explores how cities worldwide are being transformed and reconfigured by the twin forces of digital technologies and 'urban branding' in the name of global capitalism. Both of these shifts entrain new sensory bodily experiences, and this digitally-mediated reconfiguration of what cities feel like is what this book terms the new urban aesthetic.

Focussing on major case-studies of urban change from London to Doha, the book explores how different kinds of digital mediation play a central role in urban transformation, from smart city phone apps, to social media interactions, to computer-generated visualisations. The book reveals how different versions of the new urban aesthetic organize different sensory experiences of temporality and spatiality - leading to a new understanding of the way we experience cities today.

The New Urban Aesthetic is essential reading for researchers and students in urban studies, architecture, digital studies, sociology, and human geography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350070844
• Artikelnr.: 63259547

Autorenporträt

Mónica Montserrat Degen is Professor in Urban Cultural Sociology at Brunel University London, UK. She is the author of Sensing Cities (Routledge 2008), The Meta-city: Barcelona - Transformation of a Metropolis (with M. Garcia, Editorial Anthropos, Barcelona 2008) and Culture and Agency (with M. Miles, University of Plymouth Press 2010). She has published widely on urban experience, spatial politics, urban design and urban transformations in cities across the globe.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Preface 1: Introducing the
New Urban Aesthetic 1. Setting the scene 2. The urban: materialities and
imaginaries 3. The aesthetic: sensations and staging 4. The digital:
devices and data 5. Differentiation and power relations 6. Case studies,
methods and evidence 7. Conclusion 2: The New Urban Aesthetic: A Conceptual
Framework 1. Introduction 2. Branding cities, shaping experiences 3. Urban
experiencing and digital mediations 4. Aesthetics: produced, conceived,
perceived, lived 5. The new urban aesthetic, difference and power 6.
Conclusion 3: The Conceived Aesthetics of Urban Redevelopment: The Case of
Msheireb Downtown, Qatar (co-authored with Clare Melhuish) 1. Introduction
2. The case study: introducing Msheireb Downtown 3. Spatialising urban
glamour: 'something one wants on the cover of a magazine' 4. The
temporalities of urban glamour: 'the key to the image is that you are
telling a story' 5. The conceived new urban aesthetic: when glamour goes
wrong 6. Conclusion: texturising glamour 4: The Perceived Aesthetics Of
Digital Urbanism: Feeling Digital Embodiment In Smart Milton Keynes 1.
Introduction 2. The case study: Milton Keynes, smart city 3. Conceiving
smart cities: storytelling about smart MK 4. Perceiving the new urban
aesthetic in a smart city: the flow of bodies and/as data 5. Appified
sensations in smart MK 6. Perceiving the new urban aesthetic of flow, again
7. Conclusion: texturising flow 5: The Lived Aesthetic of Urban Social
Media: Anticipating the Culture Mile's Future 1. Introduction 2. The case
study: The Culture Mile, Smithfield Market and anticipatory urbanism 3.
Instagram as an expressive infrastructure for branding 4. Dramatising the
Culture Mile: the Culture Mile branding strategy on Instagram 5. The lived
experiencing of Smithfield with Instagram 6. Conclusion: texturizing drama
6: The New Urban Aesthetic and its Power 1. Introduction 2. Power and the
new urban aesthetic: differentiating and distributing 3. Storytelling and
the new urban aesthetic 4. Animating the new urban aesthetic 5.
Seamfulness: seeing aesthetic labour 6. Conclusion 7: Conclusion: The
Differentiation and Potentialities of the New Urban Aesthetic 1.
Introduction 2. The new urban aesthetic: reprise 3. The limits of the new
urban aesthetic 4. Other new aesthetics of cities 5. Afterword References
Index