Encountering urban places : visual and material performances in the city / edited by Lars Frers and Lars Meier.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frers, Lars.

Meier, Lars.

Series:

Re-materialising cultural geography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Study and teaching.

Cities and towns.

Public spaces--Social aspects.

Public spaces.

Spatial behavior.

Group identity.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

xii, 190 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2007]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754649296

9780754649298

OCLC:

70251146