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082 _a307.76094672
_bDEG-S
100 _aDegen, Monica Montse
_92422
245 _aSensing cities :
_b regenerating public life in Barcelona and Manchester
_cby Monica Montserrat Degen
260 _bRoutledge/ T & F,
_c2008.
_aLondon:
300 _axiv,: 225 p.
440 _aRoutledge studies in human geography.
_927229
500 _aFormerly CIP. Collection subset: Social Welfare Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 _a: 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.
520 _aThis 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.
650 _aUrban renewal
_vSpain
_xBarcelona
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650 _a Urban renewal
_vSpain
_xBarcelona;
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650 _a Sociology, Urban
_vSpain
_xBarcelona;
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650 _a Urban renewal
_vEngland
_xManchester
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650 _aSociology, Urban
_vEngland
_xManchester
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942 _cBK
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