TY  - BOOK
AU  - Degen, Monica Montse
TI  - Sensing cities:  regenerating public life in Barcelona and Manchester
SN  - 9780415397995
U1  - 307.76094672 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge/ T & F
KW  - Urban renewal
KW  - Spain
KW  - Barcelona
KW  -  Urban renewal
KW  -  Sociology, Urban
KW  - England
KW  - Manchester
KW  - Sociology, Urban
N1  - Formerly CIP.
Collection subset: Social Welfare
Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index; : 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 privatisation 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 -- Formalising 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
N2  - This book identifies an important aspect in the analysis of urban change in the late twentieth century by highlighting the significance of the senses in the constitution of urban life
ER  -